The Latest Breaking News from Hamilton Island

Pickleball in the Whitsundays? How Australia’s Hamilton Island is shaking off its fly-and-flop reputation

It’s time to reconsider the car-free idyll off Australia’s Queensland coast

Evening Standard · Feb 20

Great Barrier Reef’s Hamilton Island to be bought by US private equity firm in reported $1.2bn sale

Blackstone says it has agreed to buy popular Whitsundays island from Australian winemaking family

The Guardian - AU · Dec 24, 2025

Australian military helicopter crash: four feared dead as search and rescue teams discover aircraft debris

Four people were on board the Australian army helicopter when it went down at about 10.30pm on Friday in Whitsundays

The Guardian - AU · Jul 28, 2023

How the death of Marina Morgan on her Hamilton Island honeymoon will help those in need

Friends and family of Marina Hanna Morgan plan to create a foundation in her name to help people in need and spread the "love, joy and kindness" they say was a hallmark of her life.

ABC News · Jul 9, 2022

Newlywed bride killed in horror golf buggy accident while on holiday with husband

Marina Morgan was thrown from an overturned golf buggy on Hamilton Island in Australia and tragically died at the scene just 10 days after her wedding to husband Robbie

Daily Mirror · Jun 22, 2022