The Ghan is one of the longest train journeys in the world, spanning 1,851 miles and multiple climate zones, from tropical ...

Something tore up the ground across the Nullarbor Plain, leaving a distinctive mark on the landscape. Scientists finally ...

The Australian Outback is one of the hottest places on earth ... Thanks to an eternity in the desert and the evolutionary ...

Named palaeospondylus australis, the Queensland find marks the first time the genus has been found outside Scotland. It's ...

which spawned the abiding 1908 novel of Outback struggle, We of the Never-Never, is a good start. Out here, on the 2800km desert highway that cleaves Australia’s centre, lies the baking town of ...

Temperatures in the central deserts can reach 122 F in the summer and the drop ... I am telling you that a sunrise over the ...

But organisers of the iconic Big Red Bash festival in Birdsville have thrown a lifeline by announcing a scaled-back event ...

Alice Springs, Australia (CNN) — The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s ...

When news hit that one of outback Australia's biggest music festivals ... performance next July atop the sand dunes of the Simpson desert in far western Queensland. Festival founder Greg Donovan ...