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.

  • byBrian 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”.

  • byKatrina 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.

  • byKatrina 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.

  • byKatrina 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.

  • byAnthony 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.

  • byAnthony 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.

  • byAnthony 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.

  • byAnthony Dennis
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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.