Deciphering Douglas Mawson’s diaries reveals his polar opposite pursuit – exploring the Flinders Ranges Australia’s Antarctic exploration pioneer took his polar pyjamas and wore them in the outback The Guardian - AU · Dec 27, 2025
‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list Aboriginal site featuring ancient quarry sits on transcontinental trading route connecting Gulf of Carpentaria to Flinders Ranges The Guardian - AU · Dec 5, 2025
Western quolls and brushtail possums thrive in national park a decade after reintroduction The Australian animals were locally extinct but have had a resurgence in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges national park The Guardian - AU · May 25, 2025
Destruction of sacred Flinders Ranges sand hills ‘heartbreaking’, say traditional owners South Australia’s environment department has apologised for damage done to sacred sites adjacent to Nilpena Edicara National Park The Guardian - AU · Sep 18, 2023
How algae conquered the world – and other epic stories hidden in the rocks of the Flinders Ranges Earth was not always so hospitable. Evidence of how it came to be so beautiful and nurturing is locked in the rocks of South Australia’s Flinders Ranges – a site now vying for World Heritage listing. The Conversation · Aug 6, 2023
Australia's extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-metre shaft to explore the depths of Mairs Cave in the southern Flinders Ranges. Some 55 metres into the main chamber, they find fossils scattered throughout a boulder pile. Among these fossils are a claw and part of a wing bone that appear… The Conversation · Mar 16, 2023
The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane review – the lost boy Otherworldly sunsets, family tensions and Aboriginal lore collide in a blazing mystery set in the colonial outback The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2023
'How are they losing their children like this?' Fiona McFarlane's novel interrogates the stain of white presence on Aboriginal land “How are they losing their children like this, all over the country? They aren’t used to the desert.” The Conversation · Dec 6, 2022
Traditional owners welcome greater engagement over World Heritage status for Flinders Ranges The federal government will provide $500,000 over the next four years to increase engagement with the traditional owners of a potential World Heritage site. ABC News · Nov 3, 2022
Tarikjot Singh pleads not guilty to murder of Jasmeen Kaur, whose body was found in Flinders Ranges The alleged killer of 21-year-old Adelaide woman Jasmeen Kaur has pleaded not guilty to her murder. ABC News · Mar 16, 2022