Photo Essay

The wet season in the Northern Territory transforms the land from red hues to brilliant greens. As billabongs and rivers swell and extend, modifying and erasing transport networks and agricultural...

With cattle exports to Indonesia at a record high, photojournalist Lara Jensen climbed aboard the Wellard Rural Exports’ $44 million purpose-built livestock vessel – the MV Ocean...

Listening to photographer Italo Vardaro tell the story of how he came to document the picturesque town of Sedan in South Australia, it sounds more like it chose him than vice versa. “Whenever I...

The unique colours and landforms of the Australian outback have inspired artists for thousands of years. Dutch photographer Thijs Heslenfeld was captured by the same magic that is reflected in...

 Photographers Louise Linke and Lara Jensen both live on remote stations in the Murchison region of Western Australia, so they know a thing or two about tough times in the bush. “The last...

 Frederick McCubbin’s paintings – particularly those from the end of his career – have deeply influenced the way Australians see and appreciate the unique landscape that...

Traditional wisdom holds that the best time in the Top End is the dry season, when humidity is low, temperatures are moderate and access to most places is easy. Indeed traditional wisdom holds that...

FROM THE weathered face of trooper Phillip Gentry peering from the top of a tank during the Vietnam War to Sergeant RE Taylor chewing the fat over the “Korean Ashes”, played in honour of...

The parlance ‘from little things big things grow’ was never truer in Waikerie, SA, than when someone casually commented, in reflection of the local old folks, “there won’t be...

Richard Green has the means to go where few men have gone before him, and that is a very useful thing for a photographer. Touching his EC 135 helicopter down amid the vast, relentless outcrops of the...

In the the late 19th century, public lectures were a favourite form of entertainment and outback Australia was a favourite subject.   These pictures are scans of precious glass photographic...

"There's nothing more Australian than a [boxing] tent,” fourth-generation showman Fred Brophy says over a beer between boxing bouts at the Rockhampton Show. “I’m proud to say...

Helicopter pilots in northern Australia lead nomadic lives, flying between stock camps most of the year in small machines that are pushed to the limit. In the Victoria River District (VRD) of the...

Like many Queensland residents, David Dennis of Waltham Station, near Clermont, could only watch as the rain he’d waited so long for stormed through the heavens and flash flooded his cattle...

Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland remains one of Australia’s last frontiers – amazing considering it was on the west coast of the peninsula that the first recorded landfall by...

A group of photographers has been so moved by the enduring drought conditions facing much of Australia that they’re capturing it for posterity out of their own pockets. Beyond Reasonable...

The dual sides of the Australian national character – a love of coastal living alongside our fascination with the country’s rugged heart – are reflected in a special National...

The Tanami Road is referred to with varying degrees of nostalgia as the Tanami Track, and in reality varies considerably between those states, depending on its wear and tear and recent weather. At...

Karen Brook was overwhelmed by the spectacle she witnessed in Queensland’s Channel Country during flooding there in February and March. “I am 22 years old and have never seen anything so...