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Qantas launched its 2.5-hour direct Sydney-Broken Hill flights in April.
Broken Hill

Airline review: QantasLink, Dash 8-300, Sydney to Broken Hill, NSW

Aim for a window seat on this new route to a quirky outback destination.

  • by Katrina Lobley
The Broken Hill Mosque Museum offers a history lesson like no other.
Broken Hill

Broken Hill Mosque Museum: The incredible history and cameleers behind outback Australia's last mosque

The Broken Hill Mosque Museum offers a history lesson like no other.

  • by Katrina Lobley
The six-day trek is hard yakka but the resulting view from the summit is worth it.
New South Wales

Warrumbungle National Park, NSW: Hiking the six-day Warrumbungle Summits trip

Hiking the Warrumbungle National Park: It's hard yakka but the resulting view from the summit is worth it.

  • by Keith Austin
Callubri Station owners Angie and Mike Armstrong have rigged up a splendid antique rustic version of moon-bathing using an old truck trailer in a wildly overgrown paddock.
Country NSW

Moon-bathing in Callubri Station, Central West NSW: Getting naked under the stars is the ultimate in romance

Sinking back in warm suds, with your eyes on the sky, must be one of the most relaxing and meditative activities ever invented.

  • by Sue Williams
The Classic Safari Company runs five-day 'Aussie Outback Pub Crawls' that take you 4000 kilometres across the outback encompassing three states and visiting eight pubs.
Outback Queensland

Best outback pubs tour: The ultimate bush pub crawl by plane

What if you could travel across the outback visiting pubs along the way and be back at work in a week?

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Opal mining in White Cliffs.
New South Wales

Outback NSW travel guide and things to do: Nine must-do highlights

See Cameron Corner where the NSW, South Australia and Queensland borders meet, stay in an underground motel and see a pub with Pugh and Drysdale originals on the wall.

  • by Anthony Dennis
As befitting a gritty outback mining town with its traditional legion of whistles to wet, Argent Street, Broken Hill's main thoroughfare, is not short of pubs.
Broken Hill

Broken Hill, travel guide and things to do: Nine highlights

From a long cold milkshake, to that other type of Milky Way, to camels in a main street, to ancient Indigenous art - there's plenty to see in this remote NSW town and surrounds.

  • by Anthony Dennis
White Cliffs is a small town in outback New South Wales in Australia, in Central Darling Shire, known for Opal mining. .Photographed Thursday 24th September 2020. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH TRAVELLER 200924
New South Wales

Pineapple opals: White Cliffs, NSW is the only place in the world you can find them

White Cliffs, one of the most remote towns in the country, is experiencing something of a tourism boom.

  • by Anthony Dennis
The Mad Max 2 Museum in Silverton celebrates Australia's seminal action film, released in 1981.
Broken Hill

Silverton, NSW, 'Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior' location: 40 years on, tourists flock to apocalypse

It seems there are no distances too far for Mad Max 2 devotees to travel to pay homage.

  • by Anthony Dennis
Part of the museum collection is a handful of old RFDS planes, including a Nomad N22C.
Broken Hill

Broken Hill, NSW: The great missing Royal Flying Doctor plane search

Inside a hangar at its Broken Hill base, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has painstakingly been reviving its past and the latest piece of the aeronautical jigsaw is now in plane sight.

  • by Anthony Dennis

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