Latest from South Australia

'It's embarrassing, they're mocking it'

Veteran Aussie Brad Hodges has joined the chorus of disapproval calling Brendon McCullum's ban "a mockery".

'Sadistic' child torturer jailed

A "sadistic" father who tortured, terrorised and sexually abused four children at a remote South Australian property has been jailed for up to 25 years.

Was this fatal car crash staged?

Jasmine White's body was discovered in South Australia in a crushed car with catastrophic injuries but now there are claims she was dead before the crash.

Revealed: Air NZ's new weapon in Oz

Air New Zealand is launching a raid into its Australian rivals' home patch targeting the long haul market across the Pacific.

Big Wet: Flooding hits Auckland suburbs

Thunder storms and torrential rain are dousing the upper North Island as the tail-end of a storm makes its presence felt on this side of Tasman.

Runaway plane kills pilot

A freak accident at an airport in Australia has killed a pilot and left two light aircraft damaged.

Adelaide: Roads less travelled

North of Adelaide, the Stuart Highway undulates through a bucolic landscape of cereal fields, sheep farms and vineyards.

Adelaide: Southern charmer

Native-born Australians ignore elegant, artistic Adelaide - and Mark Chipperfield is glad.

Australia: Desolation in a parched and ancient land

A slowly disappearing railway is a thing of surprising beauty for Fergus Blakiston in South Australia's Outback.

South Australia: Shake your tail feathers

Sarah Ivey meets booty-waving emus with a thirst on, fair dinkum Aussies with a penchant for gourmet cuisine and more spectacular scenery than her trusty camera lens can handle.

Outback South Australia

Northwest of Adelaide lies this fascinating land of ancient rock formations, salt lakes, native wildlife and several national parks.

Australia: Earth and indulgence

Lisa Martin finds exploring Australia's mining heritage from Sydney to Perth on the Indian Pacific is poetry in motion.

South Australia: Filling up in ocean's pantry

Port Lincoln is known as Australia's seafood capital. And it doesn't disappoint Sarah Ivey.

Australia: Ghan then

Shandelle Battersby watches Australia go by as she rides The Ghan from Top End to bottom.

Across the Tasman

We all know about Barossa and its big, bold shiraz; the famous Penfolds Grange and Melbourne’s terrific foodie scene.

Tuna too handsome to eat

Sarah Ivey's exciting and icy ocean frolic with the muscly edibles reveals just how powerful, speedy and incredibly special they are.

What's behind Australia's extreme heat?

Residents in South Australia are enduring temperatures of more than 40 degrees this week. The Conversation explains what's behind the extreme heat.

Jon Bridges explores Hahndorf