News
Convict sites get World Heritage listing
Port Arthur, Freemantle Prison and Cockatoo Island are among 11 former convict sites inscribed this week.
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News
Canning Stock Route: the Aboriginal story
Aboriginal artists have joined together to present a collection of artwork, telling their history of the Canning Stock Route.
Destinations
Australia’s iconic lighthouses
Looking for unique accommodation? Why play keeper for a night in one of these historic Australian lighthouses.
News
Fromelles diggers laid to rest
Ninety-four years after one of the bloodiest battles in WWI, 250 soldiers have been laid to rest.
News
Fossils reveal prehistoric life cycle
Scientists have stumbled upon fascinating clues about an extinct marsupial.
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Warrior reburied 170 years after death
The remains of an Aboriginal warrior, displayed in a UK museum for many years, have finally been laid to rest in Western Australia.
News
Sabre-toothed bandicoot fossil found
Scientists have unearthed a fossil in Queensland of a previously unknown sabre-toothed bandicoot.
News
Australian Antarctic explorer dies
Alf Howard, who was aboard Douglas Mawson’s 1929-31 expedition to Antarctica, has died.
Adventure
Eyewitness account: Mawson’s Hut
Sponsored by the AG Society, a team of carpenters went in 2006 to help preserve Mawson’s Antarctic Hut.
History & Culture
Great Aussie pubs
The great Aussie pub is an icon – we’ve had famous songs composed about them as well as in them. Here are the best outback drinking holes around the nation.