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Outback sailing in the Tiwal © Melinda Henshaw In June of this year Kiwi sailor, Melinda Henshaw, announced she wanted to see 'the real Australia'. It was a challenge I couldn't resist. So we loaded the TIWAL 2 and TIWAL 3 into the Pajero and off we went. In 1830, explorer Charles Sturt managed to get a sailboat far up the Murray and Darling rivers. Now over 120 years later, technology has proven benefits for adventurers. Little did we know it, but these inflatable craft would define the trip for us. We headed south-west from the Gold Coast to 'Lincoln Hills', near Stanthorpe. My...

THE owners of two irrigated cropping and grazing properties in the Border Rivers region in Queensland's south west are hoping to cash in on Australia's booming agricultural sector. Operated by the Grey family, Garrawilla (1723h) and the adjoining Belmore (518ha) in the Barwon River catchment on the Queensland-NSW border are up for auction next month along with their valuable water entitlements. The properties focus on cotton and winter cereals and according to sources Garrawilla is expected to sell for between $18m and $20m and Belmore $4.5m and $5m before or at the March 18 auction in Goo...

Date Time Northern Basin enters new year still in drought Much of the northern Basin is beginning 2021 with little reprieve from its prolonged dry period. This is despite drought-breaking rain in other parts of the Murray–Darling Basin over the past couple of months. The MDBA head of River Management, Andrew Reynolds, said the whole of the Queensland part of the Basin remained drought declared, and northern and far-west regions of New South Wales were still waiting for significant rainfall to help replenish their river systems. “The northern Basin’s water storage levels have started the...

James Harrison worked as a journalist on various newspapers in Victoria from his arrival there in 1839 until his return to England about 1873, and has left a a remarkable blueprint on the face of the earth. JAMES HARRISON was born in Renton, near Ben Lomond, Scotland, April 17, 1816. He designed and built the plant for the first Australian manufacture of ice 1854; formed the Sydney Ice Company with P. N. Russell 1860; designed a revolutionary refrigerator 1860; work on the refrigeration of ships for the export of meat from 1870 James Harrison worked as a journalist on various newspapers in Vi...

Dark Emu in his introduction to his new book, Loving Country – a guide to sacred Australia, co-authored with Vicky Shukuroglou, an extract of which appears below. Perhaps 2021 can be the year then, to at least start to change that, as, in the face of closures and international border restrictions, we satiate the travel bug by exploring our own backyards more enthusiastically than ever before. Everywhere we go, from Broome to Bass Strait, we can be mindful of the Aboriginal culture there, past, present and future. And we can make this an endeavour not of token deference, but of real persona...