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The Long Paddock: Australia’s slowest great road trip

Before the highway, there was the travelling stock route — a web of drovers’ tracks that still threads the continent. We went walking where the cattle once did, and found the old roads very much alive.

By Marlee Doyle · 02 Jul 2026 · 12 min read

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Music

Pub rock never died. It just moved to the beer garden.

Front bars from Footscray to Fortitude Valley are turning the amps back up, and a new generation is discovering what their parents already knew: loud guitars belong with cold beer.

By Sid Harker · 01 Jul 2026 · 7 min read

Tucker

Wattleseed, saltbush and smoke: the native pantry goes mainstream

Native ingredients are moving from the margins to the middle of the menu — and the growers behind them want the credit, and the returns, shared properly.

By June Talbot · 30 Jun 2026 · 9 min read

Screen

Why the desert is Australian cinema’s greatest character

Vast, indifferent and impossibly photogenic, the outback has upstaged every actor ever sent into it. A look at why our filmmakers keep pointing the camera at the horizon.

By Ray Okafor · 29 Jun 2026 · 8 min read

Yarns

Chrome, dust and a dog on the tray: inside ute culture

Less a vehicle than a national institution, the ute carries hay, surfboards, kelpies and a fair chunk of the national identity. We visited the muster that proves it.

By Pip Sanderson · 28 Jun 2026 · 6 min read