History & Culture
Australia’s cuisine culture: a history of our food
A look at what cooking Australian cuisine means and how it’s changed over the years.
History & Culture
Collective nouns: The tradition of naming
Join us as we continue the age-old search to name groups of things.
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Ned Kelly: Hero or hell raiser?
Although Ned Kelly was laid to rest with his family in 2014, the nation is still divided on whether he was a hero or hellraiser.
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Gallery: painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge is literally a never-ending job
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Gallery: Sydney Harbour Bridge opens, 1932
On Saturday, March 19, 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened.
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Gallery: Dick Smith’s record breaking balloon flight
Australian Geographic’s founder Dick Smith and fellow balloonist John Wallington went down in history on 18 June 1993 – beating odds that seven other attempts failed to overcome – and became the first people to fly a hot air balloon across the Australian continent. The Australian crossing had been tried by many with no luck. In the end, however, their epic adventure was a little over 40 hours.
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Indigenous Protected Areas
In 51 Indigenous Protected Areas across the nation, traditional owners are managing their land for a better future.
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Gallery: Australia in the sixties
Aussies mixed protests with mini-skirts during this swirling melting-pot of an era. Whether you remember it or not most people declare that the sixties began in the US and Britain in 1963 and died in 1974. It was an era characterised by huge changes to daily life as technology penetrated homes and our the social fabric was torn apart and sewn back together as a mini-skirt. Ron and Elizabeth Morrison where some of the first ’60s freelance news photographers in Australia, and here are some images from their book Those Were the Days: Australia in the sixties.
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Songlines of the Lurujarri Heritage Trail
The Lurujarri Heritage Trail is an opportunity to experience Aboriginal connection to country.
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Culture shared on the Lurujarri Heritage Trail
Walk alongside the Goolarabooloo community on a journey that traces their 82km songline north of Broome, WA.