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The Line of Lode stands out in this aerial shot of Broken Hill.

The outback town that changed Australia forever

Decisions made a century ago in the Trades Hall in Broken Hill continue to influence our working lives – for the better.

  • by Brian Johnston
The Living Desert and Sculptures attraction.

Nine must-do highlights of Broken Hill

Don’t be surprised if you feel the earth move under your feet at either end of the day in the “Silver City”.

  • by Katrina Lobley
Qantas launched its 2.5-hour direct Sydney-Broken Hill flights in April.

Airline review: QantasLink, Dash 8-300, Sydney to Broken Hill, NSW

Aim for a window seat on this new route to a quirky outback destination.

  • by Katrina Lobley
The Broken Hill Mosque Museum offers a history lesson like no other.

Broken Hill Mosque Museum: The incredible history and cameleers behind outback Australia's last mosque

The Broken Hill Mosque Museum offers a history lesson like no other.

  • by Katrina Lobley
As befitting a gritty outback mining town with its traditional legion of whistles to wet, Argent Street, Broken Hill's main thoroughfare, is not short of pubs.

Broken Hill, travel guide and things to do: Nine highlights

From a long cold milkshake, to that other type of Milky Way, to camels in a main street, to ancient Indigenous art - there's plenty to see in this remote NSW town and surrounds.

  • by Anthony Dennis
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The Mad Max 2 Museum in Silverton celebrates Australia's seminal action film, released in 1981.

Silverton, NSW, 'Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior' location: 40 years on, tourists flock to apocalypse

It seems there are no distances too far for Mad Max 2 devotees to travel to pay homage.

  • by Anthony Dennis
Part of the museum collection is a handful of old RFDS planes, including a Nomad N22C.

Broken Hill, NSW: The great missing Royal Flying Doctor plane search

Inside a hangar at its Broken Hill base, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has painstakingly been reviving its past and the latest piece of the aeronautical jigsaw is now in plane sight.

  • by Anthony Dennis
One of the most unusual features of the sealed highway is the fact that part of it further on from Tibooburra now doubles as a rare emergency, all-weather landing strip for aircraft.

NSW outback roads: Broken Hill to Tibooburra, now sealed, opens up opportunities

The full sealing of a NSW outback highway is helping open up the far west to tourists and locals.

  • by Anthony Dennis
Samoa

World's 15 best places to watch the sun rise and set

Traveller writers reveal memorable locations to experience the beauty of the world in half-light.

Uluru.

Outback with a vengeance

Cheaper flights and a swag of new tour resorts and hotel makeovers are helping lure travellers back to central Australia, writes Lee Atkinson.