Greg Ansley finds The Ghan offers luxury in unforgiving wilderness.

Sight-seeing flight highlights romance of the red centre.

Rachel Glucina embraces her inner snob in a search for luxury over the ditch.

Pamela Wade takes to the water in the Northern Territory.

Just a boat ride from Brisbane, Moreton Island has amazing history and giant sandhills.

Kerri Jackson finds Club Med offers the perfect family escape during a recession.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to fly to Melbourne alone, pick up a rental car, drive north out of the city for an hour-and-a-half, then find several places off the beaten track where I would be buffed and pampered to my heart's content.

Jill Worrall goes behind locked doors to tour an Aussie prison.

New indigenous tourism ventures are emerging in Kakadu, and traditional owners have welcomed tourists into parts of the park previously kept hidden from the public, writes Tara Ravens.

The Birdsville Races are one of those quintessential, quirky, outback events involving horses in which the actual races are kind of incidental to the rest of the fun.