Australia

Outback with a vengeance

Cheaper flights and a swag of new tour resorts and hotel makeovers are helping lure travellers back to central Australia, writes Lee Atkinson.

Australia

Rolling in luxury

Nina Karnikowski It's not just the revamped luxury interiors, it's the places along the way that make the Indian Pacific a true-blue experience.

Outback reflections

Lulled by the lapping waters of Lake Menindee, city slicker Effie Mann feels an unexpected affinity with the land.

NSW

Art, inspiration and an empty canvas

Elissa Blake takes an art-lover's tour of Broken Hill, with larger-than-life characters and even larger landscapes.

Dishing the dirt: Australia's top industrial tourism sites

The resources boom is driving the economy and now tourists are chasing a slice of the action.

Wide brown land by train

Take a photographic journey from east to west on board the Indian Pacific train.