Some camps are memorable because of what is built around them. Others are memorable…

At a misty bend in the river, a weary traveller meets a stranger beside a campfire who knows the shadows he carries—and what must be done to cast them away.

A sly swagman, a boastful shearer and a croquet game played with sledgehammers and paddy melons—Peter Pentland serves up a classic bush yarn.

A hidden NT creek camp, seven new articles, two podcast episodes and new Legend pages for Ron Boughton and Neil McArthur.

A father tries to teach his son a hard bush lesson, only for fate to deliver a wildly funny lesson of its own in Neil McArthur’s Law of the Land.

An elderly woman watches another generation of soldiers march away and remembers the husband and son she once farewelled. A moving poem about the war endured by those left at home.