History & Culture
Underground substations: Adelaide’s hidden side
Randy Larcombe’s photos reveal a hidden, humming world underneath Adelaide’s beating city heart.
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History & Culture
Slides reveal Tasmania’s Overland Track in the 1950s
Christina Armstrong stumbled on a treasure trove of slides from her dad’s 1957 trek of the Overland Track
History & Culture
Gallery: Historic photos of Cradle Mountain
Christina Armstrong unearthed some old slides from her Dad’s trip to the Overland Track in 1957. These are some of the digitised images
History & Culture
Fred Brophy’s outback boxing tent
Since the 1970s, Fred Brophy’s boxing tent has been a travelling spectacle in outback Queensland.
History & Culture
Drovers of the Australian outback
Photographer Darren Clark took on a 12-year project to document outback Australian archetypes, which culminated in his recently released book, Drover.
History & Culture
Amazing iPhone photos, the best of 2014
It’s hard to believe, but these images were all taken on iPhones. They are the winning images of iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) is the first and the longest-running iPhone photography competition.
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Mapping the Antipodes: Australia in early maps
A series of maps trace the unveiling of Australia, from the fantasies of second-century Egypt to Flinders’ last work.
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Unravelling the mystery of Arnhem Land’s ancient African coins
An AG Society-sponsored expedition set out in July 2013 to solve the mystery of 12th Century coins found in the NT.
History & Culture
Knowing the Aussie accent
How did “G’day mate” become the sound of home for millions of people?
History & Culture
Gallery: Lost portraits of Australian WWI solidiers
The State Library of NSW is calling for information on an unseen, haunting collection of portraits of WWI soldiers in NSW in 1918. Of the 1600 images, 230 images are currently on exhibit, and 20 of them are shown here. Portraits of War: The Crown Studios Project will be on show at the State Library of NSW from 28 June until 21 September 2014 in Exhibition Galleries.