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The most astonishing outback inventions and innovations

If necessity is the mother of invention, then the harsh Australian outback has provided the absolute mother of all incentives to find easier and better ways to do things over the decades. AT presents some of our most famous, and most astonishing, outback inventions and innovations.

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Australia’s Strangest Day Tours

If a bog-standard bus trip around the well-trodden highlights doesn’t quite cut the mustard for you any more, it’s time to ramp up the quirky quotient. David Whitley ticks off the top five seriously odd day tours being offered around the country.

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The many styles of accommodation in the Australian Outback

The Australian Outback caters to all travel habits, Peter Robinson explores the six star to the no star Outback accommodation options.

Travel guide

How do I explore the Australian Outback?

There are many places to go, modes of travel to get there and tours of the Australian Outback, Peter Robinson reveals which one may just suit you.

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How to travel the Australian Outback

How far do you have to travel into Australia's outback, before you’re actually heading back in? Peter Robinson ventures passed Broken Hill through Uluru and Alice Springs to the Kimberley and back to find out exactly where the Great Australian Outback begins . . . .

Outback Holidays

Steve Irwin to RM Williams: the most memorable outback characters

In the red dusty expanse, single-minded, eccentric and sometimes utterly insane personalities thrive. And without question it’s the people who have formed a special bond with the outback that make it so wonderful and unique. Sol Walkling looks at just a few of the amazing people out there who have made the outback what it is today.

Adventure Holidays

20 Top Australian Tours

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Bushrangers today, eh?

Over a friendly meal with a wandering yarn-spinner, Peter Russell-Clarke learns that the days of the outback outlaw are far from over. They’ve just lowered their sights a little.

Outback Holidays

Ken Duncan’s Panorama: Dipsticks of the Outback

An outraged Ken Duncan prepares to wage war on a growing threat to the pristine nature of our precious outback icons: idiots with spray cans, textas and – sometimes – chainsaws. Dipsticks of the Outback, you have been warned . . .