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A DAY’S DRIVE FROM BRISBANE
Stradbroke Fisherman’s Road Stray behind the sand dunes on North Stradbroke Island and you’ll discover Fisherman’s Road, also known as the number plate cruncher. It traverses through heathlands and marshlands, past lakes and lagoons and at times through some very…
JUST HOW BIG IS THE RV INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA
It’s little wonder that Australia won the right to host the 2015 World RV Conference, which will see members of the recreational vehicle industry flocking to Melbourne in February. The Caravan Industry Association of Australia says this nation’s love affair…
DESTINATION: VICTORIA’S HIGH COUNTRY
Sitting by the warm glow of a campfire, laughing about the track you drove today that made your knuckles turn white and your heart rate go off the scale is part of the whole Victorian High Country experience. Some of…
SEMA 2014: LOOKING FOR A FEW GOLD NUGGETS IN A SEA OF BAD IDEAS
SEMA and Las Vegas both represent everything that is wrong with the automotive industry: a mad dash to the bottom of the pyramid of taste and common sense, a cacophony of the uneducated shouting “More and More and More! More…
OUTBACK CHALLENGE 2014
The 2014 Outback Challenge is poised once again to attract some of the world’s best drivers and off-road machines, pitting them against the roughest, most gruelling terrain that Australia has to offer.
ULTIMATE OUTBACK
Andrew is a music connoisseur and right now he is in the mood for something more serious and solemn. He pushes a CD of French-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma into the CD player in his 4X4: Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites fill…
SAND CASTLE: MORETON ISLAND
One could be forgiven for thinking a thousand asps are hissing on the lower deck as we motor out from Brisbane across Moreton Bay. Instead, it’s those eager to hit Moreton Island, the third largest sand island in the world,…
THE PIONEERS: BROTHERS IN ARMS
Here’s two pairs of brothers that changed the four-wheel drive world forever—they’re certainly fit for our pioneers series! Read about Mike and Mal Leyland, and the Brown Brothers from ARB.
PLAYING BANJO
The landscapes of Australia’s great bush poet, A.B. Paterson When we were looking for a name for the journalists’ room at Unsealed 4X4 HQ, all tracks wound back to Banjo Paterson (1864-1941). No man has done more to capture the…
KIMBERLEY DREAMING
Death and rebirth are central themes in Moira McKinnon’s debut novel, while a central character of this exquisitely written book is the Kimberley itself. The reader is effortlessly drawn in by McKinnon’s keen descriptions of the landscape and its first…
FRASER ISLAND AND THE HUMPBACK HIGHWAY
Queensland’s World Heritage-listed Fraser Island is worth visiting at any time of the year. It’s the planet’s largest sand island and a 4X4 paradise, with stunning rainforest, dingoes, awesome fishing, crystal clear freshwater lakes and endless beaches.
CIVILISATION CREEPS UP THE CAPE
First seen by Europeans as far back as the 1600s, it remains one of white man’s last frontiers. It’s been a place of big adventure, big mines and big cattle properties. But times are changing as civilisation – and the…
CANNING STOCK ROUTE
Alfred Wernham Canning must have had the testicular fortitude of a thousand men to attempt to forge a stock route between Halls Creek in the Kimberley and the southern goldfields of WA. It’s a few thousand miles of the harshest…
BETWEEN A ROCK AND HARD PLACES
The north-west of Victoria is – as far as tourism goes – no-man’s land. The world for most travellers ends at one of the state’s biggest icons, the Grampians. North of its sandstone mountains lies a world only visited by…
ROOTHY – THE BEARDED CRUSADER
From 4X4 journalism to politics and lobbying, the passionate John Rooth loves getting into low gear for extra grunt Who is John Rooth? One time engineering student, high school history teacher, miner, bush mechanic, harvester driver and most of all…
