Take your students on an excursion to Outback Queensland and receive a subsidy of up to $130 per student with the Outback Education Tour Subsidy Scheme.

The experience of a lifetime awaits your group with Outback Queensland providing an authentic backdrop to learn about Australian history and heritage, dinosaurs, native animals and experience aboriginal culture and life on the land.

Outback Queensland is accessible, affordable and will be a memorable introduction to Australian history and culture for your students. Travelling through Outback Queensland by coach you can choose from a huge range of educational attractions. Just a few examples include:

• Cosmos Centre – Charleville
• Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame – Longreach
• Qantas Founders Museum – Longreach
• Wanpa-rda Matilda Outback Education Centre – Barcaldine

Along the way there are many natural attractions and landscapes to explore with warm, friendly locals welcoming you with their stories of the past and lessons for the future.

Contact us now to discuss the advantages and ease of taking your class to the Outback for an unforgettable learning experience

Your students will meet the influential characters who shape our Outback and experience the diverse lives of the families who live on the land. Experiencing our indigenous culture in Outback Queensland is a unique opportunity to connect with Australia's past.

Head Outback, beyond the Black Stump

The land where explorers, drovers and bushrangers roamed.

A place where cattle stations larger than some European countries share space with huge coalmines but the outback hospitality is as intimate and friendly as ever. Follow the footsteps of explorers Mitchell and Leichardt to the birthplaces of the Australian Labor Party and QANTAS.

• Marvel at how technology is changing education in the bush.
• See more stars than you can imagine as you sit beside a roaring campfire.

Highlights include:

• Visit the Oil and Gas Museum in Roma
• Bunked down for a night in a shearing shed on a 33,000 acre working cattle and sheep station
• Enjoy a campfire under the stars with damper after dinner
• Visit the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Bilby Rescue Centre And Cosmos Centre with special stargazing in Charleville
• Call into Barcoo Interpretive Centre for the prehistoric experience
• Experience the School of Distance Education, Stockman's Hall of Fame, Powerhouse Museum and Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach
• Spend time at the Australian Workers Heritage Museum in Barcaldine and have a photo taken under the Tree of Knowledge Memorial

Contact us now to discuss the advantages and ease of taking your class to the Queensland Outback. They will be talking about it for years.

Government subsidy may be available – depending on age