And suspension designed to cope with fast driving in the Australian outback gives a superlative ride on normal roads. As a motorway cruiser, the Sigma is on a par with a Jaguar.
Thousands of pelicans have died of starvation as an oasis in Australia's harsh outback country begins to dry up, killing fish the birds feed on, officials say.
Michael and Lindy Chamberlain, the couple who claimed their infant daughter was spirited off by a dingo in the Australian outback, are planning to divorce, a newspaper said Saturday.
The entire population of a small outback town in eastern Australia _ about 1,600 people _ prepared today for an immediate evacuation because of rising floodwaters, authorities said.
Before roads linked outback stations, drovers like Mr. McTaggart were commonplace.
The Soviet Union has offered to help build a rocket launch pad in the outback and put an Australian in space within a decade, government officials said Tuesday.
He used to spend several weeks a year enjoying adventures like tracking orangutans in the jungles of Borneo and studying kangaroos in the Australian outback.
His grin is no less broad today, but the front teeth remaining are few and far between. No matter how kicked around by outback life, Brack, like most locals, professes a profound dislike for the city.