The Australian Outback brings to mind a sprawling red desert, intense heat, and hopping kangaroos — not tender steaks, shrimp on the barbie, and boozy drinks with plastic koalas attached to the straw.

SYDNEY, Australia — Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women. Mayor John Molony found ...

Adam Ferguson had plans for what his photography series was going to be. But the subject matter had other ideas. Ferguson, a photographer who has returned to his native Australia after years living ...