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Australia is home to the world’s most beautiful puddle

Think blue-tinged water clear as a gin cocktail, pure white sand, and one of the world’s most unusual landscapes. This is a puddle for the Instagram age.

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A dingo has attacked a woman on K’gari.

Collared dingo bites woman on K’gari in latest island attack

A dingo has bitten a woman on the popular Queensland tourist island of K’gari after encircling a separate group of adults and being scared away.

  • Felicity Caldwell
The boy's dad snatched him from the dingo's jaws on Fraser Island.

Dingo involved in K’gari attack captured and euthanised

One of the dingoes involved in an attack on a 23-year-old woman on K’gari has been captured and humanely euthanised.

  • Nick Gibbs and Suzanne Simonot
Woman in dingo attack on July 17

Rangers reject cull call after dingo pack attack on woman

Rangers confirmed that at least one of the animals in the pack that attacked the woman was classified as a risk and has a collar with a device to track movement and behaviour.

  • Robyn Wuth
Campgrounds at Eli, Maheno, Guluri and Wahba were closed in September, and now sites at Wathumba and Teebing have been added to that list.

Woman bitten by pack of dingoes in attack on K’gari

Four dingoes attacked the woman while she was jogging, and she ran into the water in a bid to escape.

  • John Crouch
Fraser Island is officially reverting its name to K’gari.

The name of the world’s largest sand island is changing. So it should

Name changes like this are vital for the way we as Australians see our country, but also the way the rest of the world sees us.

  • Ben Groundwater
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Back to paradise: K’gari name formally reclaimed for famed Fraser Island

The change caps a lengthy campaign by the Butchulla people and the most significant moment to date in a state government program of colonial-place-name renewal.

  • Matt Dennien
A plane has crashed at Fraser Island.

K’gari campsite declared off-limits to reduce risk from roaming dingoes

The unfenced beachfront camping area has been closed to the public until March 31 while rangers monitor the dingoes’ movements.

  • Jocelyn Garcia
A tiny but fully grown deadly Irukandji jellyfish lies next to match sticks for size comparison in a research laboratory at James Cook University in Cairns,

Pair stable after two confirmed irukandji jellyfish stings on K’gari

A young girl was one of two confirmed cases of the potentially fatal stings flown from the island to Hervey Bay Hospital yesterday.

  • Tony Moore
A five-year old boy was bitten by a dingo on K’Gari, or Fraser Island on Sunday, December 18, 2022.

Boy bitten by dingo on K’gari at camping ground

A five-year-old boy has been bitten by a dingo on Sunday afternoon on K’gari, or Fraser Island.

  • Tony Moore

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