Australia Archives

IPCC: the misconceptions surrounding the report

Here we breakdown the biggest misconceptions surrounding the report, including the role of individual action and the fate of the Great Barrier Reef.

Wildlife

The 6 seals and sea lions that (sometimes) call Australia home

The six species of sea lion and and seal shown here either breed in Australia or are occasional visitors to our waters.

Destinations

Top 10 waterholes and waterfalls in Australia

Here’s our pick of 10 waterholes and waterfalls around Australia with which to fill up your bucket list.

AG Blog

Grub’s up!

Eating insects is growing in popularity. Are they just a trendy addition to city restaurants, or might they be the solution to feeding the planet’s burgeoning population?

On This Day

On this day: Captain Moonlite’s hanging

Love letters, shootouts and bank robberies – Andrew George Scott’s life and relationship to James Nesbitt has left historians intrigued.

History & Culture

Looking back: Australia’s Emu Wars

In 1932 Australian troops were dumbfounded when they found themselves outmaneuvered by clever birds during the Emu Wars.

Science & Environment

VIDEO: Will robots be the farmers of the future?

IN AUSTRALIA ALONE, we already have firefighting robots that can be remotely driven into a hot zone; agricultural robots (such as the robot developed by Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics that can be seen in the video autonomously tackling weeds) that can spray, weed, prune, harvest and spot disease; domestic robots that scoot around our lounge-room… View Article

Science & Environment

GALLERY: Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex

Six antennas huddle on the grassy 147ha site at Paddys River in the Tidbinbilla Valley, just under an hour’s drive from Canberra. One is a landscape-dwarfing dish as wide as a 22-story building is tall. Dotted around are three working 34m dishes and one under construction. The CDSCC is owned by NASA, but it is run through the innovation centre at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as well as by the CSIRO. It is one of three deep-space tracking stations in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) – the others are in Goldstone, California, and Madrid, Spain. The tracking stations are strategically placed around the globe, so that, as the Earth rotates, they can stay in touch with interplanetary spacecraft 24 hours a day. The DSN provides the vital link to the spacecraft of many nations travelling between the planets and beyond.