Australia is home to the world’s most beautiful puddle

Australia is home to the world’s most beautiful puddle

Think blue-tinged water clear as a gin cocktail,pure white sand,and one of the world’s most unusual landscapes. This is a puddle for the Instagram age.

  • byBrian Johnston

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Collared dingo bites woman on K’gari in latest island attack

Collared dingo bites woman on K’gari in latest island attack

A dingo has bitten a woman on the popular Queensland tourist island of K’gari after encircling a separate group of adults and being scared away.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
Dingo involved in K’gari attack captured and euthanised

Dingo involved in K’gari attack captured and euthanised

One of the dingoes involved in an attack on a 23-year-old woman on K’gari has been captured and humanely euthanised.

  • byNick Gibbs andSuzanne Simonot
Rangers reject cull call after dingo pack attack on woman

Rangers reject cull call after dingo pack attack on woman

Rangers confirmed that at least one of the animals in the pack that attacked the woman was classified as a risk and has a collar with a device to track movement and behaviour.

  • byRobyn Wuth
Woman bitten by pack of dingoes in attack on K’gari

Woman bitten by pack of dingoes in attack on K’gari

Four dingoes attacked the woman while she was jogging,and she ran into the water in a bid to escape.

  • byJohn Crouch
The name of the world’s largest sand island is changing. So it should

The name of the world’s largest sand island is changing. So it should

Name changes like this are vital for the way we as Australians see our country,but also the way the rest of the world sees us.

  • byBen Groundwater
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Back to paradise:K’gari name formally reclaimed for famed Fraser Island
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Back to paradise:K’gari name formally reclaimed for famed Fraser Island

The change caps a lengthy campaign by the Butchulla people and the most significant moment to date in a state government program of colonial-place-name renewal.

  • byMatt Dennien
K’gari campsite declared off-limits to reduce risk from roaming dingoes

K’gari campsite declared off-limits to reduce risk from roaming dingoes

The unfenced beachfront camping area has been closed to the public until March 31 while rangers monitor the dingoes’ movements.

  • byJocelyn Garcia
Pair stable after two confirmed irukandji jellyfish stings on K’gari

Pair stable after two confirmed irukandji jellyfish stings on K’gari

A young girl was one of two confirmed cases of the potentially fatal stings flown from the island to Hervey Bay Hospital yesterday.

  • byTony Moore
Boy bitten by dingo on K’gari at camping ground

Boy bitten by dingo on K’gari at camping ground

A five-year-old boy has been bitten by a dingo on Sunday afternoon on K’gari,or Fraser Island.

  • byTony Moore
K'gari (Fraser Island),Queensland – an ancient name for a new era

K'gari (Fraser Island),Queensland – an ancient name for a new era

In the Butchulla language K'gari means paradise.

  • byKerry van der Jagt