A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.

An Australian slaughterhouse dispute shone a light on a system designed to exploit migrant workers’ hopes and ambitions.

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

Headlines have portrayed Australia’s bucket-list destination as dead, or dying. But that’s an oversimplification of a complex story—and the most dire threat from tourism may be what you least expect.

Nicola Gobbo defended Melbourne’s most notorious criminals at the height of a 
gangland war. They didn’t know she had a secret.

A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.

Whiteness as disease in a skin-cancer ridden Australia.

After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch.

Five stories about Nick Kyrgios, tennis’ misunderstood genius.

When Raymond Stansel was busted in 1974, he was one of Florida’s biggest pot smugglers. Facing trial and years in prison, he jumped bail, changed his name, holed up in a remote Australian outpost and began his second life as an environmental hero.

How the Robin Hood of gamblers got ensnared in a money laundering scheme led by former football players.

An indigenous leader reflects on a lifetime following the law of the land in Australia.

An army vet vanishes in upstate New York.

What it’s like to drive tourists around the Australian outback.

On the slow death of a beached humpback whale.

Neale McShane’s jurisdiction in the Australian Outback is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. He patrols it alone.

In 1948, a man was found on a beach in South Australia. The circumstances of his death and his identity were rich with mystery. When an amateur sleuth became obsessed, he could not imagine where the clues would lead him.

A pair of undercover journalists, a boatload of refugees, 200 miles of ocean and a journey that has claimed more than a thousand lives.

A young wonk is handed the budget of the world’s smallest republic.

The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.

An Aboriginal community’s attempt to maintain a 50,000-year-old way of life.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.

Memories of happiness and troubling behavior linger during a couple's vacation.

"He could hear nothing underwater but his breathing and the rise and fall of frothed waves. Sometimes Nora appeared in front of him or off to the side, but he couldn’t talk—only wave or point. She was beautiful, a streak of light in the water. He duck-dived and his breaths rumbled in the tube. He imagined the crew back on the boat. The whole trip he had noticed how people treated him differently, an Asian with a white wife in Australia, where they didn’t belong, even without knowing he had tried to choke her and she still refused to forgive him. The mask covered his nose and he breathed out of his mouth now like he did when he was trying to sleep."