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Fiona MacDonald might have lost the power of speech, but the star has just driven around Australia, to raise $100,000 for MND research.

How do you spend a year travelling Australia in a small campervan with your family? Here's a step-by-step guide from one woman who did just that.

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Harald Murphy and Pete Petrovsky had no illusions about the challenges as they set off - in opposite directions - on a big lap of Australia in two Tesla Model Ys.

Famous blogger Ben Groundwater of Australian website Traveller has revealed his 11 favourite travel experiences which all travelers should add to their bucket lists.

Circumnavigating Australia in an electric vehicle used to be a massive undertaking. Now, it can be readily done in a "basic" EV.

A photo of a diesel-powered EV charger shows a limited-run unit designed by an Australian engineer. It is far more efficient than claimed.

By the time Huntington made that first #vanlife post, Maxine and Karstan had already finished a 25,000km road trip around Australia. In 2009 after some extended European gallivanting, which included completing the Camino de Santiago in thongs, the couple returned home, bought a 1971 Kombi and set out for the Big Lap, circumnavigating Australia by road. Twelve years, a TV wedding and eight Volkswagens later their adventure continues, and Zuri’s arrival in late 2019 did nothing to dampen the p...

An Australian couple have given a vintage caravan a new lease of life after transforming the outdated piece into an epic home on wheels - complete with a modern-style kitchenette, daybed and reading nook.

The most common response to the news that our family was embarking on a year-long adventure around Australia was, Ive always wanted to do that. As though this, and not buying bricks and mortar, was the real great Australian dream, never realised. Life and its complications and mundanities conspired to stop us taking our Aussie lap too, even though hubby and I had talked about it since the first time we met. It was easier to stick to the daily grind. But we made it out, and spent 2019 lapping A...