History & Culture
The end of the climb
Indigenous tourism opportunities are growing around Uluru as the deadline approaches for the ban on climbing the huge Central Australian rock.
History & Culture
The ‘world-famous’ cats that once lived in the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Did you ever see the ‘world-famous’ white cats living in the south-east pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge?
History & Culture
The longest boxing match ever
Boxing probably arrived in Australia in 1788 with the convicts of the First Fleet, but the first recorded bout in the colony of New South Wales took place in 1814.
History & Culture
This is what Sydney Harbour Bridge could have looked like
A new series of digital renderings bring to life what the Sydney Harbour Bridge could have looked like, had Dorman Long and Co’s ‘coat hanger’ design not been chosen.
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How we can protect the archaeological sites of the Apollo missions
The first human footprints on the moon, the famous flag, experiment packages, cameras, antennas, commemorative objects, space boots and many other discarded objects all have to protected, according to Alice Gorman.
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Lasseter’s Reef: Will it ever be found?
Since its purported discovery more than 120 years ago, Lasseter’s Reef, a fabled gold-rich outback quartz vein, has eluded both fortune-hunters and researchers.
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Robert Irwin looks exactly like Steve in this re-created photo
They look so alike!
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‘Organised, technologically advanced’: First people to arrive in Australia came in large numbers, and on purpose
The size of the first population of people needed to arrive, survive, and thrive in what is now Australia is revealed in two studies published today.
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The story of the first Australian women in Antarctica
Many of the issues faced by the first Australian women to travel to Antarctica are still being experienced by modern-day polar women.
History & Culture
Fight for survival of wartime breed
They carried thousands of Allied soldiers safely across the scarred battlefields of World War I, but the fight for survival is far from over for Australia’s historic military mounts.