Adventure
Tracing Shackleton’s treacherous steps
An Aussie adventurer is about to recreate Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition.
History & Culture
$4 million endowment for rock art research
A new focus on Kimberley rock art aims to uncover secrets about Australia’s earliest inhabitants.
History & Culture
Images of life around the woolsheds
It’s not just the shears that go ‘click’ on Andrew Chapman’s 36-year photographic mission through Australia’s woolsheds.
History & Culture
Gallery: Woolsheds in Australia
It’s not just the shears that go ‘click’ on Andrew Chapman’s 36-year photographic mission through Australia’s woolsheds.
History & Culture
Australian centenarians: how to live past 100
These Australian centenarians knows what it takes to live to triple figures.
Destinations
Beach heritage shacks of Royal National Park
Heritage listing has ensured the future of a no-frills Aussie beach experience that’s endured since the Great Depression.
History & Culture
Gallery: Roller derby in Australia
Meet the determined men and women of roller derby, who are skating for strength and identity.
History & Culture
Eden’s killer whales: helping human hunters
New reserach is shedding light on a historic hunting alliance between orcas and whalers.
History & Culture
Elephant illustrations: the art of science
An Australian illustrator has fused science and art to help save an endangered species – the Asian elephant.
History & Culture
Aussie slang: why we shorten words
Australian English has given birth to a flourishing fauna of diminutives.