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Going out with a bash: remote music festival calls time
If Australia's most remote music festival is on your bucket list, you've got one last chance to tick it off. The 2027 Birdsville Big Red Bash will be the festival's finale on the edge of the Simpson Desert, organisers announced on Wednesday morning. The 2026 festival had to be called off in March, after extreme rainfall across the Queensland outback inundated the site's famed big red dunes.
Going out with a bash: remote music festival calls time
The sun will set on the Big Red Bash in 2027, with the outback event ceasing after one last fling. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS) If Australia's most remote music festival is on your bucket list, you've got one last chance to tick it off. The 2027 Birdsville Big Red Bash will be the festival's finale on the edge of the Simpson Desert, organisers announced on Wednesday morning. Sign up to read this article Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Dining with Dingo: musician puts it all on the table
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Dining with Dingo: musician puts it all on the table
When musician Dingo pulls up on a patch of red dirt, he immediately unfolds a camp table and gathers with his family under the vast desert sky. While touring with his partner, singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers, their family and friends connect around the table. It's something that happens whether they're at home, staying in coastal camp grounds or visiting the outback. "It's where the deepest conversations come out," Dingo, aka Brandon Dodd, told AAP, fresh from an Alice Springs trip with Chambers.
Dining with Dingo: musician puts it all on the table
Criss-crossing Australia by road with partner Kasey Chambers, says Brandon Dodd, changed his life. (PR IMAGE PHOTO) When musician Dingo pulls up on a patch of red dirt, he immediately unfolds a camp table and gathers with his family under the vast desert sky. While touring with his partner, singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers, their family and friends connect around the table. It's something that happens whether they're at home, staying in coastal camp grounds or visiting the outback.
Australia Post urged to allow competitors to deliver parcels in the regions
Brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are among Australians’ favourite things. The delivery of a record 283 million parcels in the last half of 2025, including a bumper 111 million over the Christmas season, helped Australia Post record a modest profit as its letters business steeply declined.
Pass the parcel: Australia Post urged to ease dominance
Brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are among Australians' favourite things. The delivery of a record 283 million parcels in the last half of 2025, including a bumper 111 million over the Christmas season, helped Australia Post record a modest profit as its letters business steeply declined.
Pass the parcel: Australia Post urged to ease dominance
The national carrier has been urged to allow wider parcel delivery access to regional post offices. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) Brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are among Australians' favourite things. The delivery of a record 283 million parcels in the last half of 2025, including a bumper 111 million over the Christmas season, helped Australia Post record a modest profit as its letters business steeply declined.
Pass the parcel: Australia Post urged to ease monopoly
Brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are among Australians' favourite things. The delivery of a record 283 million parcels in the last half of 2025, including a bumper 111 million over the Christmas season, helped Australia Post record a modest profit as its letters business steeply declined.
Drunk driver jailed for killing ex-partner while on AVO
Stephanie Gardiner A fruit picker has been jailed for five years for killing his ex-girlfriend in a drunken crash that came weeks after he was ordered to stay away from her over serious domestic violence offences. Rolong Stanley, a farm worker from Vanuatu, pleaded guilty to aggravated dangerous driving causing death over the crash that killed 42-year-old Justine Hammond near Orange, in central-western NSW.
Drunk driver jailed for killing ex-partner while on AVO
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Highway pay phone rings in national treasure status
Under furious orange skies and plumes of bushfire smoke, locals and tourists lined up at a pay phone to talk to family and friends or check-in on neighbours. Some used the public phone in Narooma to tell loved ones they were safe, while others revealed they had lost everything in the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires that razed much of the NSW far south coast.
Narooma payphone heritage-listed for role played during Black Summer bushfires in NSW
Under furious orange skies and plumes of bushfire smoke, locals and tourists lined up at a payphone to talk to family and friends or check-in on neighbours. Some used the public phone in Narooma to tell loved ones they were safe, while others revealed they had lost everything in the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires that razed much of the NSW far south coast.
Highway pay phone rings in national treasure status
Under furious orange skies and plumes of bushfire smoke, locals and tourists lined up at a pay phone to talk to family and friends or check-in on neighbours. Some used the public phone in Narooma to tell loved ones they were safe, while others revealed they had lost everything in the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires that razed much of the NSW far south coast.
Mass drownings spike ahead of summer's 'perfect storm'
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Mass drownings spike ahead of summer's 'perfect storm'
A family sets out on a country drive, a group of mates embark on a boat trip, or a couple go on a quiet coastal walk. While summer outings end well in the vast majority of cases, it is these kinds of seemingly innocuous activities behind Australia's grim mass drowning toll. There were 14 multi-fatality drowning events with a total of 30 deaths in 2025/26, the highest number in almost a decade, according to a Royal Life Saving Australia report released on Tuesday.
‘Hey, Farm Assistant’: How farmers are reaping the benefits of AI
Farmer Andrew Gill jokes he first thought AI stood for artificial insemination in cattle. The beef, sheep and cotton farmer once had little interest in artificial intelligence and didn’t want to learn about something he assumed would be useless. But having adopted technology including solar panels and sensors on his family farm at Narromine, central western NSW, Gill agreed to join an AI pilot program designed for farmers.
Hey farm assistant: farmers adding AI to their toolkits
Stephanie Gardiner Farmer Andrew Gill jokes that he first thought AI stood for artificial insemination in cattle. The beef, sheep and cotton farmer once had little interest in artificial intelligence and didn't want to learn about something he assumed would be useless. But having adopted technology including solar panels and sensors on his family farm at Narromine, central western NSW, Mr Gill agreed to join an AI pilot program designed for farmers.
Hey Farm Assistant: farmers adding AI to their toolkits
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