Hannah Walsh

Fred Brophy will sell you a ticket, spin you a yarn and dare you into the ring, but at 73, the outback ringmaster is slowing down.

From retired teachers to builders and ringers, these seniors are fixing fences and homes, and restoring hope, in the outback.

People from across the country travel to Birdsville for the annual races, while an iconic boxing tent marks the end of an era.

Emergency services in the Queensland outback increasingly turn to low earth orbit satellites rather than Telstra towers for reliable internet connection.

Discovered on an outback station by a neighbour and potentially 100 million years old, the fossil will be put on display at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum in Queensland.

Families are living in caravans long after catastrophic flooding in south-west Queensland, where a tradesman says it costs nearly double to build a home compared to the city.

Most Australian indie films disappear after they do the festival circuit, but a creative director says Aussie movies should be given "a leg up" with a quota system in cinemas.

Not long after 21-year-old Jarib Branfield-Bradshaw started work as a youth officer in Cunnamulla he saw potential in a disused council building. Now it's a thriving hub for the town's young people.

Two months after being inundated by record flooding, Thargomindah hosts one of the richest quick-shear competitions in Australia, giving the community a break from dealing with the disaster's aftermath.

A cancer diagnosis led Peter Luck to build a houseboat that he and his wife are now touring the waterways of Australia in.