History & Culture
Horse sense
Queensland farrier Tom Driscoll performs a service unchanged through the ages, but his tools of the trade include the best of modern technologies.
Tag: People & Culture
Destinations
Roxby Downs: Living in an outback mining town
In the middle of Australia’s massive minerals boom, what’s life like in an outback mining town?
Destinations
Believing in Bourke:iconic outback town
Poet Henry Lawson said that to know Bourke is to know Australia. The outback town remains a barometer of Aussie life.
Science & Environment
Still life
For world-champion taxidermist Sascha Smith, success is all about sweating the small stuff.
Destinations
T Dimboola: outback town for better, for worse
THE DRY RIVERBED THAT that borders Riverside, Denis Elliott’s “host” farm, is sandy beneath our feet. It’s littered with driftwood and mussel shells. A bilious-green waterhole supports a few die-hard European carp. A family of wood ducks parades among exposed tree roots. “Water is only two-thirds of a river,” says farmer-turned-tourist operator Denis. “The big trees,… View Article