K’gari
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.
- by Brian Johnston
Latest
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.
- by Felicity Caldwell
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.
- by Nick Gibbs and Suzanne Simonot
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.
- by Robyn Wuth
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.
- by John Crouch
Opinion
Culture holidays
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.
- by Ben Groundwater
Updated
Indigenous
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.
- by Matt Dennien
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.
- by Jocelyn Garcia
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.
- by Tony Moore
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.
- by Tony Moore
K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland – an ancient name for a new era
In the Butchulla language K'gari means paradise.
- by Kerry van der Jagt
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