Mother Nature rules the roost as Big Red Bash 2026 is cancelled
It’s rare that we see the Simpson Desert looking more like an inland sea than a dust bowl, but that’s exactly the hand we’ve been dealt. The news came through…
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Dan Everett
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Uniden Partners With Drive Against Depression
There’s no shortage of “partnership announcements” in the 4X4 and automotive space. Most of them are easy to skim past. But every now and then, one lands that feels a…
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Fuel Shortages Hit the Bush
A small farming town in north-west Victoria recently became one of the first places in the state to completely run out of fuel. It might sound like a local inconvenience,…
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Does Australia Actually Want To Build Things Anymore?
There was a line dropped over the weekend that cut straight through the usual corporate PR fluff. Ford CEO Jim Farley, speaking during the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, warned…
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Visitors Will Soon Pay To See The Twelve Apostles
One of Australia’s most recognisable coastal landmarks will soon come with an entry fee attached. The Victorian Government has confirmed plans to introduce a tourist charge linked to the new…
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Wooleen Station To Change Hands After Two Decades Of Conservation-First Touring
One of WA’s most talked-about outback stations is officially heading into a new chapter. Wooleen Station, a 134,000-hectare pastoral lease roughly 700km north of Perth in the Murchison, has been…
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Local Council’s Crack Down On Caravan Storage
Sutherland Shire Council in Sydney’s south is weighing up a crackdown on trailers and caravans being parked long-term on suburban streets after fielding close to 3,000 complaints in 2025 alone.…
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Outback Roads Are Closing Fast: What’s Shut & What’s Next
If you’ve been watching the inland radar lately, you’ll know this isn’t just a passing storm. This is basin-wide rain feeding some of Australia’s biggest inland river systems. And when…
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What Happens To Utes Under NVES?
The first results from Australia’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) are in, and on the surface, the industry has ticked the box for 2025. Targets met. Credits issued. Everyone moves…
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Tub Rack vs Canopy: What Actually Works When the Trip Gets Real?
If you’re building a dual cab for touring, this is the crossroads. Forget tyres and lift kits for a minute, what you do with the back of the ute will…
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The Robot Ranger: Can it Handle the Real Bush?
Would you trust a computer to steer your rig through a bushfire? It sounds like a tall tale from a sci-fi flick. But a new Aussie project is trying to…
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Have Your Say On The Great Koala National Park
The Great Koala National Park would be one of the largest protected areas ever created in NSW. Spanning more than 475,000 hectares, it’ll stretch from Kempsey to Grafton and inland…
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How Heat Affects Your Tyres: The Hidden Danger on Outback Roads
We talk a lot about the obvious dangers in the bush. We talk about deep water crossings, jagged rocks that want to slice your sidewalls, and bog holes that can…
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High Country Huts Hunker Down For Bushfire Season
If you’ve spent any real time in the Victorian High Country, chances are you’ve ducked into one of the huts. Maybe it was to get out of the wind. to…
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Ranger Super Duty: When Medium Finally Stops Meaning Compromise
Ford reckons the Ranger Super Duty exists because people were sick of choosing between too small and too big. For years, if you needed real payload, serious towing, or proper durability in remote…
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How Clearview Mirrors Evolved Alongside Aussie Touring
If you’ve been towing around Australia for any amount of time, you’ve probably owned at least one set of rubbish towing mirrors. You know the ones. Clip-ons that buzz themselves…
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Are public campsites still first-come, first-served?
If you’ve camped anywhere popular over Christmas or Easter, you’ve probably felt it. That low-level tension when you roll into a spot expecting a chance at a riverbank camp, only…
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ANCAP Rules Could Finally Fix Annoying 4WD Safety Tech
If you’ve driven a new 4X4 on dirt in the last few years, you already know the pain. Corrugations start, lane markings disappear, you move the wheel an inch… and…
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Gamba Grass Is Threatening One of the NT’s Best 4X4 Destinations
If you’ve ever pointed the bonnet north towards the Top End, Litchfield National Park is usually on the itinerary. It’s the sort of place that makes touring in Australia the…
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Tonic Eyewear’s Recycled Fishing Line Frames Break New Ground
Spend long enough outdoors and you’ll realise a good set of sunnies isn’t just a fashion statement, it’s survival gear. Whether you’re scoping a rocky descent on the tracks or…
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Can 10L cut it in the bush? Two years with the compact Aus J hot water system
There is a certain anxiety that comes with switching up a critical part of your camping setup. We are creatures of habit. We like our diesel tanks full, our tyres…
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New Outback Playground? NSW Govt Snaps Up Two Massive Stations Near Ivanhoe
It is not every day we hear about a chunk of land the size of a small country changing hands. It catches our attention even more when that land is…
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The Bush Uniform: Thongs, Boots and the Sun-Smart Choice
There’s a sort of unofficial uniform when you head bush. You know the one, thongs, singlet, cap, maybe a bit of zinc if you’re heading to the coast. It’s the…
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The Most Underrated Mod for Long-Distance Touring
We spend a fortune protecting our engines from the harsh Australian elements. We fit snorkels to keep the water out and high-quality airboxes to stop the dust. We obsess over…
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Ford Backs Drive Against Depression
There is a concept in the touring world we reckon holds a lot of water. It is called ‘windshield therapy’. You know the feeling. The noise of the daily grind…
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Skin Cancer : The Track You Don’t Want to Go Down
If you’ve spent enough time behind the wheel, you know the rule, ignore a warning light long enough, and something bad’s about to happen. The same goes for your skin.…
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Are your car seats costing you thousands at trade-in time
Buying a 4X4 is usually the second biggest financial commitment we make in our lives. It sits right behind buying a house. We spend weeks researching the right model and…
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Rolling Up the Swag: Why K’gari’s Resorts Are Worth a Pit Stop
Look, we know what you’re thinking. You didn’t spend fifty grand building a touring rig just to park it in a hotel car park. We go to K’gari to get away from walls, Wi-Fi, and civilization.…
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Ranger Wolftrak: The No-Nonsense 4X4 Everyone’s Been Asking For
Most of the motoring world is busy talking about Ford’s new black grilles, fresh paint codes, and whatever trim piece has been darkened this time. But buried underneath all the…
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The Iconic Lions Den Hotel Is Up For Grabs (Again)
If you’ve ever rattled your fillings loose on the corrugated tracks of Cape York, chances are you’ve stopped at the Lions Den Hotel. It’s a rite of passage. A tin-and-timber…
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How To Buy The Suspension You Need, Not The Suspension You Want
We’ve all seen it. You’re rolling through a campsite and a dual-cab bounces past. It is stiff as a board and the rear end sits three inches higher than the…
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Super Duty Details: More Options For Tough Tourers
Righto, let’s talk heavy hitters. Ford’s Ranger Super Duty ute has been a bit of a dream machine for anyone doing serious work, but let’s be honest, the initial offerings…
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REDARC Simplifies Dual Battery Power with New REDWorks Panels
REDARC has just pulled the wraps off a new range of plug-and-play power systems under the REDWorks banner, aiming to make 12V setups simpler, smarter and better suited to a…
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Police Hand Out Defects in 4X4 Show Car Park
You’d think the one place you could park your 4X4 without being hassled for a lift kit or a set of 33s would be the 4X4 show car park. Apparently…
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Season 18 Is Here: Adventure Redefined
From bucket-list icons to hidden gems, Season 18 of Pat Callinan’s 4X4 Adventures is all about getting out there and doing it for yourself. We’re tackling the tropics, the deserts, the bull…
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Ford reshuffles Ranger and Everest lineup for more power and reliability
In a move that’ll get nods of approval from tradies, tourers, and towers alike, Ford Australia is officially pulling the pin on its 2.0-litre bi-turbo diesel engine, clearing the way…
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The Push to Drop Country Speed Limits from 100km/h to 70km/h
Australia’s country drivers have long accepted that life beyond the city limits comes with a fair bit of dust, potholes, and the odd roo on the road. What they didn’t…
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Tanami Road: Get Your Red Dirt Kicks While You Still Can
If you’ve ever dreamed of tackling the wild, remote Tanami Road, do it soon. Because one of Australia’s last iconic red dirt outback roads is being slowly but surely sealed,…
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National Parks Set To Privatise Camping
It’s starting to feel like déjà vu for anyone who’s been camping the NSW coast for a few decades. Once again, National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has cooked up…
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REDARC Unveils The REDLAB Lithium Battery
South Australian manufacturer REDARC has announced the launch of its new REDLAB Lithium Adventure Battery range. A next-generation off-grid power solution designed to survive the same punishing conditions that 4X4ers are known for…
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The 12 Apostles Down to Seven, And You Might Soon Have to Pay to See Them
One of Australia’s most iconic natural landmarks has quite literally taken another hit, with the 12 Apostles now officially down to seven after another limestone stack collapsed into the Southern…
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Can You Get Pinged for Eating & Driving Under New Laws?
Lately, a wild claim’s been doing laps on the internet: drivers in several Aussie states will soon cop fines of thousands of dollars, even $8,000 in the ACT, just for eating, drinking…
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Track Tested: Outback Armour’s GVM Upgrade
When you hear GVM upgrade, most people think tradies, tourers and towing, not crossing the Simpson Desert or hammering corrugations on the way to the Gulf. But that’s exactly where we’ve…
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Last Stop Larrimah
If you’ve spent any time exploring the Stuart Highway, you’ll know there are a handful of outback stops that aren’t just pubs, they’re landmarks. And one of the most recognisable,…
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Raptor Gets Finked With ARB
Ford’s Ranger Raptor has already proved it can conquer one of the harshest off-road races on the planet, now it’s bringing a slice of that Finke-winning DNA to the showroom.…
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Sealing the Outback Way: Progress at a Price
The Outback Way has long held a mythical status among Aussie 4X4ers. Stretching over 2,700 kilometres from Laverton in WA through the Red Centre and out to Winton in Queensland, it’s often…
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Ford Everest Sport Bi-Turbo: Style, Without the V6 Complexity
Ford has announced a limited run of the MY26 Everest Sport Bi-Turbo, giving buyers a chance to score the sleek blacked-out Sport trim but with the proven 2.0-litre Bi-Turbo diesel…
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Is Diesel Done For?
For decades, diesel was the king of the off-road world. It was the fuel that gave you power when nothing else could, sipped less on the highway, and kept things…
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ARB Takes On Botswana
It’s easy to say your gear is tough. It’s harder to prove it where it actually matters, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by wild animals, rutted tracks, and the…
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How to Spec Up Your Super Duty
Ford’s Ranger Super Duty lands in early 2026, and while the ute itself is built tough, the real talking point is the way you can tailor it straight out of…
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