History & Culture Speaking up …she leads while sitting cross-legged in the shade of river red gums. She is accompanied by other senior Aboriginals – Eileen Pwerrerl Campbell and Molly Pwerrerl Presley – and younger…
News Young star discovery challenges our understanding of stellar evolution …Large Magellanic Cloud – a neighbouring galaxy to our own Milky Way – the scientists found 15 stars that were much younger than other stars within the same cluster. The…
News A huge 5.2 m crocodile has been shot dead in Queensland …wildlife experts who say that younger male crocodiles will now become more aggressive as they battle to become the new alpha. “People need to clearly understand the death of this…
Wildlife Our Gondwanan gum trees …experts believe they overlapped in time with dinosaurs. They are one reason to doubt the old idea that Australia’s woodland and heathland plants are much younger than her rainforest plants….
Science & Environment Down and dirty: the Aussie women working in entomology …turnover. Because it’s so niche, academics become experts on certain groups of insects over many decades and they often aren’t replaced by younger students like me.” Related: Our native cockroaches…
Australian Geographic Adventure Nature calls: Visit the Shoalhaven for an elemental reconnection …at the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum. Matt, Raymond, and Raymond’s younger brother Bobby sit down for a chat and it’s not long before us ‘south coast boys’ figure out we’ve…
History & Culture A force to be reckoned with: 100 years of the CWA …“younger set” by some older members, who’ve revitalised the group. Avril moves outside to the fenced front garden where these mums stand in small clusters, bubs in arms, swapping stories…
Destinations A new Broome …Bart is the first of a new breed of younger operators testing Broome’s tourism waters. In 2015 the 41-year-old co-curated a podcast project designed to act as a free, self-guided…
History & Culture Moree: Australia's richest rural shire …crush oilseeds. And 46-year-old Don Devney, a former bikie from Newcastle, will defy the crisp morning air with his first cigarette of the day, then join his younger brother Des,…
Adventure Echoes of Shackleton …1916 journey as he had done it. Shackleton’s expedition has been regarded by many – Sir Edmund Hillary included – as the greatest journey of survival ever undertaken. Known as…