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Meet the Schlinks: Aussie van couple sell their house to travel across the Outback with their four kids under 10 and trusty dog Sonny for TWO years - as they prove how little you really need to be happy Ben and Theresa Schlink have been travelling Australia with their four kids and a dog for the past two years The couple sold their house on the Mornington Peninsula and took to the road in a $54,000 Jayco van  They live a simple existence with sons Noah, 10, and Solly, three, and daughters Will...

Mazda CX-3 2021 Range Review Mazda CX-3 2021 Range Review June 05, 2021 Mazda CX-3 Comparison The 2021 Mazda CX-3 is the number-one light SUV in Australia and has stood tall as one of the top-selling models across both light and small SUV segments as the categories evolve and new competitors enter the market. New-generation rivals are now making their presence felt, and there are also CX-30 and MX-30 models attracting plenty of attention in Mazda showrooms. But the CX-3 remains among the best c...

Navigate dusty, red roads to unearth deep craters and spectacular gorges, plunge into a real-life oasis in the depths of the outback and marvel at some...

The iconic Birdsville races return in 2021 after being cancelled last year due to Covid.

Premium Content Subscriber only Mackay businessmen are taking the wheel and rallying to raise funds to support people with a disability. Rally drivers will tackle some of the most uncharted terrain in Queensland, driving between 400km to 600km a day starting from St George and crossing the Simpson Desert. The 7000km trek will end in Charleville after taking in Birdsville, Innamincka, Cameron Corner and Tobooburra. But, the rally itself is just the reward. The Old Bulls team organiser Blair Hal...

SA Tourism travel blog Meet Doug Sprigg, an outback pilot who spends his days flying over the wild frontiers of his backyard, the vast South Australian outback. His flight path covers 800,000 square kilometres, an area bigger than Belgium, Netherlands and France combined. The 66-year-old runs and lives at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the farthest reaches of the Flinders Ranges and says it’s craggy peeks, towering ridgelines and sweeping gorges are best explored from the air. A diesel mec...

The Problem In the U.S., the regulation governing the strength of automotive seats is Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 207. It requires that the seats in your car be capable of withstanding a force applied forwards or backwards that’s equivalent to 20 times the weight of the seat itself, but allows for 40 degrees of seat deflection under that strain. That’s a problem because that force is static, not dynamic (equivalent to slowly pushing or pulling on the seat really hard), w...

Craig Tansley10:00, May 10 2021 SUPPLIED The Classic Safari Company runs five-day “Aussie Outback Pub Crawls” that take you 4000km across the outback encompassing three states and visiting eight pubs. The outback comprises 70 per cent of Australia – thats 5.6 million square kilometres; half the size of Western and Eastern Europe combined. This back of beyond defines Australia, and Australians, and yet for most of us, its as foreign as any country. Who among us has ever really seen it, le...

The outback comprises 70 per cent of Australia – thats 5.6 million square kilometres; half the size of Western and Eastern Europe combined. This back of beyond defines Australia, and Australians, and yet for most of us, its as foreign as any country. Who among us has ever really seen it, let alone know where it quite begins and where it quite ends? See Also Getting there from a capital can takes days of driving; and once youre there it takes days to get anywhere else. Thats why its largely th...

Truth behind ‘alarming’ China warning A top-ranking security official’s startlingly grim China prediction made global headlines this week but it could end up backfiring, says Joe Hildebrand. Opinion by Joe Hildebrand OPINION There are many ways in which a top-ranking national security official can write a public memo warning of a potential war brewing on the home front. Accidentally is not one of them. And so what is most alarming abou...