4 d. ago Piper James autopsy finds ‘evidence consistent with drowning and injuries consistent with dingo bites’

Canadian backpacker, 19, was found dead on K’gari island earlier this week surrounded by pack of wild dingoesThe autopsy of Piper James, whose body was found on K’gari surrounded by a pack of dingoes, has found “physical evidence consistent with drowning and injuries consistent with dingo bites”.The Canadian backpacker’s trip to Australia ended in tragedy when the 19-year-old was found dead on a beach on Monday on the world heritage-listed island formerly known as Fraser Island off the Queensland coast. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Shattered’ parents of Canadian backpacker found dead on K’gari island mourn adventurous daughter

Coroner to examine if 19-year-old drowned off Australian tourist island or was killed by wild dingoes“I’m 18, and you can’t stop me!” Piper James told her father before she set off backpacking on the other side of the Pacific Ocean – but the young Canadian woman’s trip to Australia ended in tragedy and trauma.Early on Monday, the now-19-year-old was found dead on a beach on the world heritage-listed sand island and tourist destination of K’gari (formerly known as Fraser Island) off the Queensland coast, surrounded by a pack of dingoes near the Maheno shipwreck. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Fears Australian backpacker 'killed by dingoes' after body found 'surrounded'

The 19-year-old backpacker was staying a the tropical island of K'gari in Queensland

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7 d. ago Teenage backpacker may have been 'killed by dingoes' on remote Australian island

A teenager has been found dead on an Australian beach, with police attempting to piece together how she was killed as if life were imitating an episode of TV's Death In Paradise.

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2 w. ago The original Thai backpacker island wooing a new generation with bargain curries, beer and hotel rooms

Thailand's second-largest island is enjoying something of a renaissance. But here's how to visit Koh Samui when the crowds thin and the prices drop.

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2 w. ago Remote Australian hotel run by ‘authentic outback character’ becomes a pub with no beer – for now

The Barrow Creek Hotel, where UK backpacker Peter Falconio was last seen alive, has lost its liquor licence, partly because the 76-year-old publican didn’t serve foodWarning: This article contains offensive language that will be distressing to some readersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updates“There’s-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear” – the patron saint of Australian country music, Slim Dusty, long deplored – “than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer”.Now a 200km stretch of highway through the heart of the outback and several remote Aboriginal towns are, in Dusty’s words, so lonesome, after a historic pub was stripped of its liquor licence from the first day of 2026. Continue reading...

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