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An excursion train operated by Outback Aussie Tours.

Three new heritage train trips let you explore the outback in comfort

Two restored 2000-class trains built in 1971 offer excursions through outback Queensland.

  • Tim Richards

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From The Royal Hotel to Wake in Fright, the Australian Outback has long been a go-to setting for horrors and thrillers.

Australia’s wild west: Why are so many horrors set in the outback?

From The Royal Hotel to Long Weekend, the Australian bush has long been a go-to setting for horrors and thrillers, but what is it about this vast landscape that’s so scary?

  • Nell Geraets
Cairns +61407313111 xxCobbold Cobbold Gorge Queensland ; text by Andrew Bain cr: Cobbold Gorge (handout image supplied via journalist for use in Traveller, no syndication)

How a stunning outback gorge stayed hidden for centuries

The history of Cobbold Gorge sounds like a tall tale – a 30-metre deep outback gorge escaping detection to all but the traditional owners until 1992.

  • Andrew Bain
The furniture is screwed down at the Animal Bar ... or at least some of it is.

Inside the notorious outback bar that inspired a Chili Peppers song

Animal Bar, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, has a storied past and a mean reputation.

  • Melissa Mason
Charleville in outback Queensland played an overlooked but fascinating part of Australia’s World War II history.

The secret outback base where the US hid one of its top weapons

Despite playing host to 3500 US airmen and hiding a device used in the bombing of Hiroshima, Charleville barely registers a blip on Australia’s wartime radar.

  • Catherine Best
What Australotitan cooperensis, 'Cooper', the Southern Titan, may have looked like.

Australia's largest dinosaur discovered: How to join fossil digs with Eromanga Natural History Museum

Guests can help dig (and scrape) for Australia's largest dinosaurs and mega-fauna in outback Queensland.

  • Craig Tansley
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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.

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?

Birdsville Hotel.

Birdsville, outback Queensland: One of Australia's most remote towns revitalised

It's one of the most remote towns in the world – yet travellers to Birdsville are discovering there's a whole new shine to the Queensland outback icon.

  • Sue Williams
Better than going no where: " REX's 'Milk Run' offers a bona-fide outback tour de force".

Why Rex's Milk Run flight from Brisbane to Mt Isa beats a 'flight to nowhere'

You can fly from Sydney to Tokyo in the same time it takes to do a 'Milk Run' flight with seven tiny-town pitstops.

  • Steve Madgwick
Famous for its stunning white sand beaches, the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia.

Flight of Fancy podcast: Best things to see and do in Queensland (once the borders open)

Looking to explore Australia's Sunshine State? Here's what you can see and do, and where to go.

  • Ben Groundwater

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