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Finke Desert Race to feature newlyweds racing down the aisle in Australia's dustiest 'wedding car'

Darwin newlyweds Jack and Amy Mildwaters set to put their 'wedding car' through its paces at this year's Finke Desert Race.




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Internal view of one of the rooms. The ceiling fire caused the roof of the house to collapse



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Novice cameleers embark on six-month camel trek from Central Australia to the NSW coast

A novice cameleer and three boys are on a six-month trek from the red centre to the east coast and they want to pick up a group of followers along the way.




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Uluru climb closure won't hurt visitor numbers, says Parks Australia

Closing the climb at Uluru won't have a dramatic effect on tourist numbers, according to Parks Australia, who say visitor figures have been steadily increasing over the last six years.




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Indigenous artist from NT wins Australia's richest landscape prize worth $100,000

Carbiene McDonald Tjangala takes his first ever flight to get from the NT to Tasmania to collect Australia's richest landscape prize for his painting representing his father's Dreamtime stories.




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Remote Australians are discovering they are richer by hundreds of thousands of dollars than they realised

There has been laughter and hugs as people in outback Australia discover millions of dollars in superannuation they did not know they had.




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Language app helps renal patients understand dialysis treatment in Central Australia

Software developed with the help of Alice Spring medical staff and Indigenous people from remote communities is set to break down the language barrier and ease the stress of patients undergoing dialysis treatment.




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Central Australian date farmers determined to fight cheap imports as industry grows for sugar substitutes

Date palms in the central desert are a legacy of Afghan cameleers bringing a little bit of home with them. Today, Australian farmers are keen to grow the local date industry to feed the Middle East and the health food sector, while staving off cheap imports.




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Red Centre cattle property Mt Skinner sold to South Australian family for almost $10 million

After three generations on the property, Mt Skinner Station north of Alice Springs has left family hands for the first time in its history.




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Vale Peter Sherwin, one of the cattle kings of northern Australia

At one point Peter Sherwin was the largest private landowner in the country, with about 300,000 head of cattle, spanning 17 cattle stations.





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Yuendumu in Central Australia at 'severe risk' of running out of water

The largest remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia is rapidly running out of drinking water but it is just one of many communities in the region that have been struggling with finite groundwater supplies for many years.




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NAPLAN: Northern Territory registers some of the biggest literacy improvements in Australia

The NT has historically performed very poorly in NAPLAN testing and the improvement in results is impressive considering almost half of students speak English as a second language. But a pay battle for teachers could derail future successes.




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Thousands of mental health patient transfers show need for more clinicians in rural Australia, researchers say

Australians suffering acute mental health episodes in rural and remote areas are increasingly having to travel far from family and friends for life-saving treatment, leading to calls for more specialist clinicians in the country.




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More women than ever take part in NTCA Indonesia-Australia Pastoral Program

The program sees Indonesian agriculture students immerse themselves in NT cattle stations, learning how to ride horses, handle cattle, and conduct bore runs.




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NTCA Indonesian-Australia Pastoral Program




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Australian anthem rewritten to represent all Australians and promote Indigenous constitutional recognition

The national anthem has been rewritten and performed for the first time in Alice Springs by a group that says it should be more inclusive of all Australians.



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The unlikely heartland of softball in Australia

AFL might be the highest-profile sport in remote Indigenous communities, but no community in Central Australia is complete without a softball diamond.




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Geoscience Australia to stop printing and selling topographic maps from December

Bushwalkers and map sellers say the decision by Geoscience Australia to stop printing and selling topographic maps will put people's safety at risk and impact on our understanding of remote Australia.




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Shirleen Campbell among NT Australian of the Year winners for work with Indigenous women

An Alice Springs social worker who has given a voice to Aboriginal women and a Darwin doctor who oversaw the RAAF Cyclone Tracy evacuations have been honoured.




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Rain in south-eastern Australia will help cropping but much more needed to break drought

Rain, and lots of it, has fallen across the south-east and is expected to continue for the next few days but what will it mean for the southern cropping season and the drought?




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Family to stay in Australia after son with cystic fibrosis initially deemed a 'burden'

A Victorian family at risk of being deported back to their homeland Ireland after their son was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis will now be able to stay in Australia.




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Water trading's 'unintended' consequences across Australia's southern Murray-Darling Basin

As Australia's competition watchdog prepares to study the Murray-Darling Basin's $2 billion water trade, a trip up the river finds irrigators are worried about the market's "unintended" consequences.




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Family tragedy prompts Aussie volunteers to teach swimming skills in Philippines

A group of volunteers from Melbourne and Wodonga are back home after spending a week in the Philippines teaching children how to swim. They say the trip will save lives.




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Vision Australia seeks funding to keep 'essential' radio service on the airwaves

More than 700,000 people could lose their primary connection to the outside world as the NDIS rollout leaves Vision Australia Radio without essential government funding to stay on air.




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Australia unprepared for more frequent heatwaves, health and emergency authorities say

As the northern hemisphere sweats through deadly heatwaves, experts warn Australia is unprepared to deal with soaring temperatures.




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Tim Fischer outlines 'levers for success' in final speech to regional Australia

Tim Fischer highlights education, leadership, bold thinking, and towns working together as his tips for a successful regional Australia in his final pre-recorded video speech.




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Tim Fischer farewelled at state funeral in Albury as 'titan of regional Australia'

Prime Minister Scott Morrison pays tribute to Tim Fischer at his state funeral, saying the former deputy prime minister's political courage in advocating for stricter gun laws had made Australia safer.




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Australia's haberdashery shops are hanging on by a thread but are they crafting a comeback?

The humble haberdashery shop was once a mainstay of many a town centre, but is browsing the colourful bits and bobs in these stores in danger of becoming a thing of the past?




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Almost 200 jobs cut as Norske Skog sells its Albury site to Australian paper giant Visy

Operations will cease at Albury's Norske Skog paper mill, with 183 employees to lose their jobs after the company announced the sale of its Ettamogah site to Australian papermaker Visy.




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Man dies while hiking to Mount Sonder on Larapinta Trail in Central Australia

A man collapses and dies while hiking with a family member on a remote bush trail near Mount Sonder in Central Australia. It is the second death on the trail in 18 months.




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Plans for Australia's only methanol plant to be built in Darwin Harbour

A $500 million methanol plant with the capacity to produce 1,000 tonnes a day of the chemical could begin operating by 2024 in the Darwin Harbour.







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Live export probe launched after Australian cattle roped and slaughtered in Indonesia

GRAPHIC WARNING: The Department of Agriculture is investigating the alleged inhumane killing of Australian cattle at the Festival of Sacrifice in Indonesia.




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Australian schools are using apps to help children deal with trauma

School students are learning meditation and reporting their emotions with apps in a bid to prevent disruptive behaviour in the classroom.




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Window closing to oppose axing of tax offset for regional and remote Australians

Time is ticking for regional and remote Australians to have their say on a draft report into changes to remote tax concessions.




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Australia Talks Data, Question 455




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Australia's obesity epidemic bites in Katherine, which data shows is among nation's heaviest

Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show almost 78 per cent of Katherine residents are now either overweight or obese, the highest proportion in the country. But the town's Mayor is not quite convinced.




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The Top End is on the front line of Australia's most severe climate challenges




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12-year-old South Australian tourist falls 20m on Uluru summit climb

As tourists flock to Uluru ahead of the October 26 climb closure, a young South Australian girl has fallen at least 20 metres while descending from the summit.




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Santos strengthens hold on north Australian gas, buying $2 billion of production and exploration assets

Resources giant Santos is strengthening its grip on the north Australian gas sector, as it moves to secure billions of dollars worth of exploration and production investments in the Top End.




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Northern Australian marine park's sea floor caught on camera for first time

In the turbid waters of the Wessel Marine Park in the Gulf of Carpentaria, an underwater garden of sponges, corals and creatures is revealed.




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Cherabin commercial farming by traditional owners in WA's far north to be an Australian first

An Aboriginal corporation in the Kimberley is set to become the first to commercialise the breeding of native freshwater prawns.




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Uluru climb closure 2019: Why these Australians flocked to climb the rock

Despite objections from Aboriginal traditional owners, thousands of Australians have flocked to Uluru to climb the rock before it officially closes this week. We travelled to Uluru to ask a few of them why they decided to make the journey.



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'Doctors and engineers end up driving taxis': The uphill battle facing migrants to Australia

Manal Aqrawe is a doctor with more than 20 years of experience, but she can't get a job in Australia even outside medicine. Her story is sobering, but far from isolated.




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Seabird surveys on CSIRO Investigator: Spotting migratory birds in northern Australian waters

With 11 voyages and 300,000 recorded observations under his belt, population ecologist Eric Woehler has dedicated his life to building a dataset to help monitor and track bird populations in a changing world.




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Uluru entry prices to rise as Parks Australia flags new fees with tourism operators

One week after the end of the Uluru climb, Parks Australia has flagged the first fee increase at the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in more than a decade and tourism operators could be the big losers.



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Canberra builders could face further crackdowns as ACT seeks 'highest quality buildings in Australia'

Directors of building companies responsible for substandard works in Canberra could be held personally responsible for defects, under new laws proposed by the ACT Government.