The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly equivalent to ...

Alice Springs, Australia (CNN) — The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior ...

The Red Center, Australia – Ten days, one wallaby, no kangaroos. My fantasy – adorable ‘roos galumphing around every bush in the Outback – was just that. Camels – wild ones, at that – were another ...

Just like freight trucking, mining operations where trains haul heavy loads along the same route seem a high-potential application for autonomous vehicle technologies. Mining giant Rio Tinto has been ...

ON BOARD THE GHAN, Australia As the sun rises over red sandy hills scattered with spiky spinifex bushes and stunted eucalyptus trees, the harsh beauty of the Australian Outback is bathed in a warm ...

Australia's red centre may be vast and empty, but Lucy Rickard finds she can't take her eyes off it. It's the experience of a lifetime for many, riding the Ghan all the way from the balmy top end to ...

It's late afternoon. We are leisurely cruising on a motorised boat through the spectacular Katherine Gorge, one of top-end Australia's epic natural wonders. There's nothing but pristine wilderness as ...

It’s the third time I’ve travelled on the Spirit of the Outback, one of Queensland’s five long-distance trains, and the memories are flashing through my mind as quickly as the landscape passes the ...

The Spirit of the Outback train that travels between Brisbane and Longreach in western Queensland has marked 20 years of service. The Queensland Rail passenger train started its 1,300 kilometre ...

The view slowly evolves after the train leaves Adelaide's Keswick rail terminal, from the city's suburban sprawl into parched, harvested wheat fields and then into salt-encrusted plains near Port ...