Tolarno Station - Australia's outback history is epitomised by Tolarno Station. Tourists are welcome to step back into the 1860's to see the homestead in which Bourke and Wills stayed on their trek to inland Australia. The property boasted 3 hotels, a school and a jail. Tolarno also had the largest fleet of paddleboat steamers in inland waterways in the Southern hemisphere. Caravanners are very welcome, with accommodation in the converted shearers' quarters, as well as camping by the river.   More information

Broken Hill is at the centre of a large wilderness and desert area. Renowned for its underground homesteads, scarlet sunsets and land burnt red from the heat of the sun this  landscape has provided inspiration for at least two of Australia’s most famed outback painters, Pro Hart and Jack Absolom.  The regions Art Galleries and Museums have been preserved as monuments to Australia’s oldest inland cities.

This southern inland region encompasses four national parks with Sturt and Tibooburra, home to thousands of kangaroos, emus and dingoes.

World Heritage listed Mungo National Park is a lunar landscape of barren windswept plains, surrounded by obscure sandhills sculpted by none other than natures hand. The sacred rock art sites and hand paintings at Mutawintii stand as an enigmatic tribute to the spirits that dwell here and to the mystic dreamtime.


This outback region also includes all inland areas to the far north, such as Armidale, Bourke, Tamworth and Lightening Ridge.