Jasmine White's body was discovered in South Australia in a crushed car with catastrophic injuries but now there are claims she was dead before the crash.

Air New Zealand is launching a raid into its Australian rivals' home patch targeting the long haul market across the Pacific.

Thunder storms and torrential rain are dousing the upper North Island as the tail-end of a storm makes its presence felt on this side of Tasman.

A freak accident at an airport in Australia has killed a pilot and left two light aircraft damaged.

North of Adelaide, the Stuart Highway undulates through a bucolic landscape of cereal fields, sheep farms and vineyards.

Native-born Australians ignore elegant, artistic Adelaide - and Mark Chipperfield is glad.

A slowly disappearing railway is a thing of surprising beauty for Fergus Blakiston in South Australia's Outback.

At a grand South Australian vineyard, Winston Aldworth finds a glass of vintage port that matches his own history.

The spectacular Flinders Ranges in South Australia are full of ancient charm, writes Linda Meads.

South Australia's picturesque state capital offers plenty to see and do for travellers on a budget, writes Shandelle Battersby.

More than 30 homes are believed ruined as a major bushfire continues to burn out of control in the Adelaide Hills.

Alone on the barren, ocherous and mine-scarred landscape surrounding Coober Pedy, Fergus Blakiston feels like a man on the moon.

Penfolds' founder knew nothing about winemaking when he came to Australia in the 1840s, but his spirit lives on, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Sarah Ivey meets booty-waving emus with a thirst on, fair dinkum Aussies with a penchant for gourmet cuisine and more spectacular scenery than her trusty camera lens can handle.

Northwest of Adelaide lies this fascinating land of ancient rock formations, salt lakes, native wildlife and several national parks.

Lisa Martin finds exploring Australia's mining heritage from Sydney to Perth on the Indian Pacific is poetry in motion.

Port Lincoln is known as Australia's seafood capital. And it doesn't disappoint Sarah Ivey.

Shandelle Battersby watches Australia go by as she rides The Ghan from Top End to bottom.

Residents in South Australia are enduring temperatures of more than 40 degrees this week. The Conversation explains what's behind the extreme heat.

Judy Bailey dances with sea lions in a magical swim before enjoying a night in the Outback.

Think Barossa and if you know anything at all about wine, you'll probably think 'Shiraz'. Patrick Smith does.

Visiting South Australia and had enough of the wineries? Try these alternative experiences ...

We round up some of the best places to stay when you're looking for a spot of luxury in the wilderness.

Patrick Smith gets on and off his bike to explore the Clare Valley – the Tuscany of Australia.

Four weeks of over-the-top partying – that's Mad March in Adelaide, writes Henry Porter.

An historic German settlement of Adelaide - now a tourist town - defines for Jon Bridges how tough and adaptable Australia's early European settlers needed to be to survive.

To say Australia's Outback is atmospheric is a tame understatement. For Fergus Blakiston it awoke his sense of history.