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Koh Lipe, Southern Thailand.

Go west: 16 highlights of the other great ocean on our coast

The Indian Ocean stretches from WA to the east coast of Africa and offers a wealth of islands, many with white-sand beaches ringed by coconut palms and aquamarine water.

  • Lee Cobaj and Craig Tansley

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Zodiac excursion to King George Falls.

Every day is a surprise in this remote part of Australia

Along Western Australia’s remote Kimberley coast, time and tides rule everything.

  • Kerry van der Jagt
Hugh Marks

New ABC boss has a steep learning curve ahead of him

Marks should be given a chance to prove his critics wrong by recognising that the ABC is not a commercial outfit, but a public broadcaster dedicated to producing independent, trustworthy and quality programming to a diverse audience, regardless of class or political persuasion.

Drugs, bikies, a serial killer: How did six men vanish from the outback without a trace?

Wes Lockyer is one of six Aboriginal men from WA’s remote north to have disappeared in recent years. His family want the police and pollies to do more to find them. And the public to care.

  • Tim Elliott
Iron ore at BHP’s Jimblebar mine in the Pilbara.

Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog

The resources sector wants the reform to be abandoned altogether rather than returned to the agenda in February.

  • Mike Foley
The blocky cliffs along the Hunter River are some of the oldest rocks in the Kimberley.

Enjoy rock-star treatment along this wild and ancient coastline

Watching living dinosaurs between sips of champagne? This crazy juxtaposition of luxury in a prehistoric wilderness is a hallmark of my Kimberley cruise on Scenic Eclipse II.

  • Carolyn Beasley
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Imogen Mitchen and Corey Rozario are doing great things with their pop-up at Margaret River skate park.
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This freewheeling Margaret River pop-up is blazing a new trail for modern Asian cooking

While BMX bandits practice bar spins and grommets drop-in, an emerging cooking talent is serving game-changing dahl, punchy pickles and other bold Burmese cooking.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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This was one of the most emotionally stirring experiences I’ve ever had

I’ve taken part in a few Indigenous experiences over the years, but this is by far the most profound.

  • Lee Tulloch
Nathan McSweeney is set to get his chance to prove himself at the top of the order.

McSweeney call shows Australian selectors backed themselves into a corner: Hayden

Batting great Matthew Hayden says Australia was forced to pick a non-specialist opener to face India in next week’s first Test.

  • Tom Decent and Andrew Wu
Douglas C-53 Skytrooper wreck from World War I, Vansittart Bay, Kimberley coast.

This plane wreck in a remote part of WA is like a scene from Lost

It was the night in World War II when a Douglas C-53 Skytrooper, low on fuel and hopelessly lost, made a belly-flop landing on a salt pan in Vansittart Bay.

  • Kerry van der Jagt

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