Red dust, remote bush and thousand-kilometre journeys now form a quintessential travel experience for millions of international visitors to Australia. For that we can thank Bill King
1895–1903: Australia’s worst drought since European settlement.
A series of heists on Australian museums 70 years ago is still causing a flutter in butterfly science today.
Telling the story of Australia’s bunya pines was a refreshing change for wildlife photographer and writer Esther Beaton. For one thing, the trees didn’t move!
The story of Chinese migrants in North East Tasmania is best explored on the Trail of the Tin Dragon.
The lure of wild and remote landscapes ignited the passion of this farmer, ringer, agriculture graduate and advocate for people with disabilities.
27 February 1902: Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant and Peter Handcock are executed.
Bunya pines are culturally significant for First Nations peoples in South East Queensland, and their nuts are now a trending superfood. But the story of this prehistoric plant begins way back in the Jurassic period.
In 1965, kids enjoying a summertime swim at a local pool in a small country town became a potent symbol of the fight against entrenched racial discrimination in Australia.
This stunning natural amphitheatre launched careers and provided almost a century of entertainment after being created in the 1930s by extraordinary architectural and landscape design duo Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.