Concerns have been raised over recruitment struggles in one of Australia’s most remote and unique outback towns.

Miners with tenures inside one of Queensland's newest national parks will be allowed to continue hunting for opals. Vergemont Station was bought by the state government in April last year, backed by ...

In the Australian Outback, there is a town where most people live, eat, pray, and sleep underground. It is not a film set. It ...

Rod Manning, one of the best-known faces from the hit television series Outback Opal Hunters, has been diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer, prompting his family to launch a public fundraising campaign ...

The Queensland government has confirmed it will allow opal mining to continue on land surrounded by a new national park. Vergemont Station was purchased by the state in April last year. Miners with ...