Outback

• WASHINGTON — Subaru is recalling 381 2012 Subaru Legacy and Outback vehicles because the side curtain airbags may not deploy, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
(insideline.com)
• OUTBACK Queensland is to get a new airport, railway line and even a new town to cater for the thousands of workers needed to open up the mineral-rich Galilee Basin.
(News.com.au)
• COLES is investing $35 million in the Broken Hill Plaza shopping centre development in outback New South Wales.
(News.com.au)
• The Worlds Toughest Truck Driver (Mon., 10 p.m. EST on Discovery) promises to take viewers on a tour of some of the most dangerous roads on earth, from British Columbia to Austrialia, via Brazil and India.
(Huffington Post)
• "The show was based on the rugged outback," added Kate Mulleavy. Despite being obsessed with Australia, Kate said, the sisters have never been. But no matter their limited geography.
(Daily Beast)
• DARWIN, Australia - Not everyone who lives in Australias Outback is getting a slice of the unprecedented bounty being created by massive deals to sell natural resources to Asia.
(Calgary Herald)
• Most of the e-mail we get into our tip line, especially with regards to restaurants, is about rude waitstaff, awful food and uncaring managers.
(Consumerist.com)
• As part of its Thanks for Giving program, Outback has donated over $2,000,000 over the past two years in support of our troops and families.
(Big Hollywood)
• An Australian biology professor is causing a rumble in the academic jungle by suggesting that his country should import elephants and other foreign species into its wild interior.
(BBC News)
• In late 2008, on a windy night in Winton, a speck of-a-town in the Australian outback whose population was last estimated as less than 1000, Wally De Backer, better known by his stage name Gotye (pronounced GO-TEA-YAY), went for a late-night stroll.
(Rolling Stone)