Australian Traveller's Steve Madgwick talks to Julia Lines from passenger rights group Airline Customer Advocate to get the low-down about your rights when your plane/flight is delayed or cancelled (in Australia).

Ever dreamed on staying on your very own private island? Megan Arkinstall tries out Tasmania's delightfully isolated and luxurious Satellite Island.

Blindingly beautiful coastline. An internationally lauded food culture. Literally, the world’s best boutique hotel. And barely a car on the road. How is it that Tassie’s east coast (from Hobart to Swansea, Bicheno, St Helens) is still crowd-free?

Value favourite Travelodge Hotels promises to be “refreshingly simple” so how does it stack up against its natural enemy, the hipster hotel.

She may not have made it all the way on MasterChef, but that wasn’t going to stop Marion Grasby from taking on the world (words: Lara Picone, photography: Lauren Bamford).

The Birdsville Races is an Australian outback bucket list item of mythical proportions, with around 7000 pilgrims covering thousands of kilometres to swarm on the remote Queensland town each September (since 1882). But Birdsville ain’t no one horse-race town. If you make it that far into the outback, you should do Birdsville thoroughly. So here are the 10 other must do’s. (words: Steve Madgwick)