The Five Worst Campsite Crimes (and Their Punishments)
Camping has an unwritten code. Nobody hands you a rulebook when you buy your first swag or rooftop tent, but before long you learn there are certain things you just…
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Dan Everett
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Is Hill End The Next Big Touring Destination?
Hill End has always felt much bigger than its current population suggests. Hidden away in the NSW Central Tablelands, north of Bathurst, the former gold-mining town is filled with old…
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Thousands of utes are heading for Deni again in 2026
There aren’t many events in Australia where the journey there is almost as recognisable as the event itself. Every October long weekend, highways and backroads leading towards Deniliquin begin filling…
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Pat’s heading to the Melbourne 4×4 Show
If there’s one weekend guaranteed to add a dangerously large number of new items to your 4X4 wish list, this might be it. The National 4×4 Outdoors Show is returning…
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What Actually Makes Touring Gear Survive?
There is a particular kind of confidence that comes with bolting new gear to a 4X4 before a big trip. Everything is clean, every switch works and every component looks…
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Wait, There’s A Ferry On The Birdsville Track?
If you’ve spent any time travelling Australia’s outback, you’ll know the Birdsville Track by reputation. Stretching more than 500 kilometres between Marree in South Australia and Birdsville in Queensland, it’s…
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The Secret To Conquering Steep Terrain
Few obstacles get the heart rate up quite like a steep hill climb. Whether it’s a loose shale ascent in the High Country, a rocky climb through the Flinders Ranges…
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Is This Australia’s Cheapest Proper 4K Dash Cam Setup?
There was a time when dash cams were mostly the domain of taxi drivers and YouTube crash compilations. Most of us didn’t see much need for one. If something happened…
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Your Dream 4X4 Build Could Be One Entry Away
If your dream touring build has been sitting on the “one day” list, you might want to make some time before July 6th. Club 4X4’s Mods Grant competition is entering…
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Shifting Sands: ARB’s 50th Anniversary Tour Heads For The Arabian Desert
There are plenty of companies that sell adventure. Far fewer actually live it. That’s what has made ARB’s 50th anniversary series such a strong reminder of why the brand has…
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Why More 4X4s Are Getting Defected (And How To Avoid Being Next)
For years, modified 4X4s have flown largely under the radar. A touring setup with a lift kit, bigger tyres, a bar work package and an aftermarket exhaust barely raised an…
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What A $320 Million Kimberley Investment Means For 4X4ers
There’s a tendency to think of the Kimberley as one of the last untouched corners of Australia. Spend enough time exploring the region and it’s easy to understand why. The…
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The Unwritten Rules Of The Bush
One of the biggest mistakes new 4X4ers make is assuming that because they’re out in the bush, they have the place to themselves. The reality is that every track is…
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Why Ford Believes Australia’s Best Engineering Days Are Ahead
For a lot of Aussie’s, the end of local car manufacturing felt like the end of an era. When the last Falcon rolled off the line in 2016, it was…
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Why Corrugations Are Destroying Your Rig (And How To Drive Them)
When most people think about vehicle damage in the bush, they picture dramatic moments. A tyre sidewall gets sliced open on a sharp rock. A water crossing goes deeper than…
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Cold Snap Closes Alpine Routes
An early dumping of snow has seen the authorities shut down several iconic High Country tracks ahead of schedule. Severe weather and safety concerns mean the winter lockout is officially…
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Aus J Hot Water System Faces The Ultimate Outback Torture Test
We talk a lot about reliability when we’re prepping our rigs. Usually, that means making sure our winches work or our tyres can handle sharp stakes. For most weekenders though,…
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REDARC Drops New Analog-Style 12V Battery Gauge
We all know the routine. You pitch camp after a long drive, open the canopy, and immediately pull out your phone to check how the auxiliary battery is tracking. It…
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Rock Crawling for Beginners: How to pick a line without spotting help.
We’ve all been there. You’re out on a solo mission or maybe you’ve just pulled ahead of the convoy, and you’re staring down a section of track that looks more…
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The Big Wet is Coming: What the First NW Cloudband Means for Your Next Trip
Well, it looks like Mother Nature has decided to roll a six just when we thought the outback was heading for a dusty winter. After a dry April and plenty…
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Lock it in: ARB Kicks Off 2026 Open Day This Weekend
It’s time to clear the calendar and check the tyre pressures. The crew at ARB have locked in the date for their nationwide Open Day, and it is shaping up…
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Bush Mechanics 101: Five things you can fix with cable ties and fencing wire
We have all been there. Three days deep into a track that hasn’t seen a grader since the Olympic Games, and something goes twang. Usually, it’s right when the sun…
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Everest Wildtrak Makes A Triumphant Return
The team at Ford has decided to dust off one of their most popular badges for another run. We’ve just got word that the Everest Wildtrak is making a comeback…
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10 Ways To Stop Annoying Everyone On The UHF
We’ve all been there. You’re settling into a long stretch of tarmac or navigating a tricky line through the rocks, and the silence is shattered by someone who treats the…
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Calling Kakadu: The signal just got a whole lot better
You’re sitting at the Jim Jim Ranger Station or pulling into the Karnamarr campground, and you want to check the weather, download a fresh topo map, or let the family…
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The Great Outback Lock Up
We have all seen the headlines about the New South Wales government snapping up massive chunks of the outback. What was once the backbone of our wool and cattle industries…
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Bright Ideas For Rural Roads
Driving rural roads at midnight is a different beast compared to the daytime run. When the shadows stretch out and the lines on the bitumen start to blur into the…
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Close Call North of Broome as Big Saltie Strikes
The latest news out of the Kimberley is a blunt reminder that the top end doesn’t play fair. A young bloke in his 20s is currently recovering in Perth after…
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National Parks are more crowded than ever
The latest numbers are in and it turns out we are all feeling a bit of cabin fever. New South Wales national parks just clocked a record-breaking 65.5 million visits…
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The Birdsville bubble has burst but keep the snorkel on
We’ve just seen some fresh updates coming across the desk from the Birdsville Hotel and the Diamantina Shire Council, and it’s a bit of a game changer for anyone sitting…
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Aus J launches new PROFLO range
We’ve been using the Duoetto systems from the team at Aus J in our rigs for years, including the F-150, and they’ve always been a rock-solid bit of kit. When…
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Season 16 is hitting YouTube
We’ve decided it is high time to bring the full Season 16 experience over to YouTube. If you missed it on TV or just want to relive the dust and…
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Tropical Cyclone Narelle hammers the west
We’ve seen some wild weather in our time, but the footage coming out of the Gascoyne right now is next level. Tropical Cyclone Narelle made landfall as a category four…
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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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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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