Outback Steakhouse is named after Australia's wild and rugged interior and carries out its campy Australian theme in everything from imagery and decor, to the names of its dishes, to the voiceover ...

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.

NEW YORK CITY — Two young American backpackers find themselves in Australia’s vast, mostly empty Outback tending bar in a mining town. The bar is in a ramshackle dump called “The Royal Hotel.” “I had ...

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 ...