Authorities are warning that one of Australian’s most popular pets – the rose-ringed parakeet – could become our next “extreme” pest.
The arrival of Father Christmas each December was a yearly highlight for children living along the Trans-Australian Railway.
It’s been 100 years since the last Cobb & Co coach ran in Australia, between the tiny towns of Surat and Yuleba in South West Queensland.
One of the many mysteries of Stonehenge – where its Altar Stone came from – has recently been solved by Australian scientists.
When I first heard about the relic World War II tank traps hidden away in the forests of south-east New South Wales, I thought someone was pulling my leg. It was only after I discovered my informant was a rural firefighter who’d seen the timber obstacles marked on an old map, that I took the claims seriously.
On the night of 19 November 1863, three bushrangers – Ben Hall, John Gilbert and John O’Meally – approached Goimbla Homestead, near Eugowra in central western New South Wales.
Today, all traces of where inhabitants once lived now lie beneath the waves.
About 130km west of Hobart are the remote remnants of the osmiridium mining settlement of Adamsfield, established in 1925.
It’s been 100 years since compulsory voting was introduced for Australian federal elections.
Louisa Atkinson and her mother, Charlotte, were among Australia’s earliest authors, and pioneers in women’s rights.