Lack of apprentices and economic pressures force butcher shops to close in outback Queensland
In Queensland’s cattle country, beef is big business. From grazing to abattoirs and the quintessential butchery, the industry…
With no electrician for 18 months, Boulia is enduring persistent blackouts
In an outback town known for the glowing Min Min lights phenomenon, residents and businesses are spending up…
Windorah’s new solar farm and battery system expected to cut diesel usage by half
It’s not the first time this stretch of sunburnt country in outback Queensland has been tipped as ideal…
Travellers urged not to miss out on ‘spectacular’ Aussie outback amid fuel fears: ‘We have supply’
Outback tourism operators are imploring Australians not to cancel travel bookings, as the nation’s fuel crisis continues to…
Birdsville nears annual rainfall in two days as south-east Queensland faces wet start to weekend
Parts of outback Queensland have been drenched with almost a year’s worth of rainfall in just two days,…
Angela Jones’s history-making ride from country upbringing to top of Queensland’s jockey ranks
Angela Jones can still remember being bucked off her pony onto a prickle bush as a kid on…
Pilot makes ‘unusual’ animal discovery flying over Aussie outback: ‘No idea how it walked out there’
An “unusual” sight in outback Queensland has sparked a bizarre and concerning mystery. For roughly six weeks, locals…
Bizarre outback scene caught on camera sparks puzzling mystery
An “unusual” sight in outback Queensland has sparked a bizarre and concerning mystery. For roughly six weeks, locals…
From natural disaster help to mustering and transport, bush choppers are a lifeline
With a bird’s eye view of outback Queensland, red dirt, rugged rocky outcrops and the occasional community dotted…
Warning over invasive predator ‘boom’ with Aussie rangers ‘working around the clock’
Rangers say they are “working around the clock” as one Aussie state braces for an invasive predator “boom”…