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Central Queensland

Australia

Outback with a vengeance

Uluru.

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

Outback

The rest is prehistory

Longreach Qantas

Lee Atkinson and her children find the Queensland towns of Longreach and Winton are full of dinosaur discoveries.

Queensland

Exploring Australia's golden age of air travel

Qantas Founders Museum, Longreach

Leah McLennan The most impressive aeroplane at The Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach is not the giant Boeing 747 that sits on the red dirt like a beached whale on wheels.

Queensland

Spooky lights, speedy goats

Boulia, QLD.

The surprises keep coming as Sue Williams explores towns of the outback.

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Country Queensland life

Boulia, QLD.

The surprises keep coming in outback Queensland.

Australia's top five best national parks

Wilsons Promontory, Victoria. Granite headlands, undeveloped beaches, rivers, walking trails and wildlife. The reason it tops the list is its unique mix of wilderness and luxury accommodation.

Lee Atkinson has visited 150 of Australia's national parks. Here, she reveals her five favourites.

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The world's most popular international airline is ... Ryanair?

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary

OLIVER SMITH 4:40pm | It charges up to $115 to print your boarding pass for you, yet passengers still can't get enough of controversial budget airline.

Boeing launches new Dreamliner at Paris Air Show

1:57pm | Boeing launched the biggest version of its Dreamliner plane at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday with over 100 orders worth about $30 billion.

World's best airline named as Qantas soars back into top 10

CRAIG PLATT 3:44pm | Emirates has been named the best airline in the world for 2013, while Qantas has soared back in to the top 10 in this years annual World Airline Awards.

Airline introduces 'XL' class for obese passengers

JONATHAN PEARLMAN 10:57am | Samoa Air, the first airline to charge passengers according to their weight, is now introducing an "XL class" to cater for larger customers.

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