Here are some of our favourite images from the pages of OUTBACK and Great Australians this year.
Margaret Dalparri pulls a large file snake from Gatji billabong in the vast Arafura Swamp of Arnhem Land, NT. The snakes are a much-loved food for local Indigenous people.
Wilpena Pound, SA, seen from Rawnsley Park station.
Photo Mark Muller
Astronomer Donna Burton teaches country kids Clayton and Joni Cole about the stars, with the help of a 12-inch Dobsonian telescope.
Prospector Paul Olsen with gold nuggets from the Cockatoo Gold Lease at Clermont, Qld.
A 4m saltwater crocodile near the mouth of the Fitzroy River, Kimberley, WA.
Madi Benham on Birrindudu station, NT.
Photo Ken Eastwood
Brayden Gilmore watches a mob of Australian white stud rams on Baringa, his family station near Oberon, NSW.
Photo Ken Eastwood
The filling of Lake Eyre.
Private Corey Toby in his hutchie during the 51st Battalion patrolman course. The majority of this Far North Queensland Regiment is made up of reservists from remote areas and Aboriginal communities.
Photo Ken Eastwood
Drinks in the social club at the end of a hard day's work on on Newcastle Waters station, Barkly Tablelands, NT.
Photo Ken Eastwood
Renowned Arnhem Land artist, Balang John Mawurndjul.
Weaner tailer Jock Mackay walks a mob down to the lake paddocks on Newcastle Waters station, Barkly Tablelands, NT.
Photo Ken Eastwood
Champion camel jockey and trainer Glenda Sutton lavishes love on Kumite, one the six animals she had competing at the Boulia Races in outback Qld this year.
Photo Ken Eastwood
In the NSW town of Hill End, photographer Peter Solness projected historic pictures of local characters back onto buildings and landmarks that still stand today, creating a ghostly series of installations.
Seventh-generation farmer Richard Jones with daughter Edith. The Jones family name is strongly connected to the farming history of the Jordan Valley, north of Hobart.
Station hands on a jet ski muster horses on Taldora station near Julia Creek during the devastating 2019 Queensland floods.
Photo Dan Gresham
Lynley Anderson took over her family’s Kojonup, WA, sheep property from her father, Alan. “He never thought I couldn’t do it,” she says.
Gazing at his portrait in Darwin’s historic Government House, proud Territorian John Hardy reflects on his time as Administrator.
Publican Thomas Fox at the bar of the Iron Clad Hotel, located in Marble Bar, WA - Australia’s hottest town.
A late-night view from the crow’s nest over a boat netting sardines off Port Lincon, SA.
Fossil Downs station manager Rick Ford crosses Margaret River with a mob of steers, Kimberley, WA.
Kate Lee inspects a local population of snowy mint bush, a threatened species that forms part of a revegetation plan for Korong Ridge Conservation Estate, Vic.
All hats turn towards the ring as 21-year-old Tom Kerr, of Tumut, NSW, rides Roach in the saddle bronc. Captured at the 2019 Merijig Rodeo in high country Vic.
Clifton Hills station manager Pete Nunn (at right) completes paperwork with Brenton Oldfield, before cattle are trucked out.
A LandCruiser closes in on a feral bull in the late afternoon. Wild bull catching remains a lucrative business in the Top End of Australia.
Channel Country floodwaters weave through Goyder Lagoon on Clifton Hills Station, on the Birdsville Track in SA. It’s Australia's second-largest pastoral property.
Keelen Mailman is a pastoralist and Indigenous leader and advocate. Her distinctive hat bears her childhood nickname ‘Bones’. (She was a skinny kid.)
A mob of sheep is mustered among towering paddock red gums on Barrama in Victoria’s Western District.
