Treading Lightly with Roger Smith
Galah gang antics
This parrot’s playful disposition is often cheeky, sometimes infuriating and always endearing.
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History & Culture
Mushroom with a view
This 19th-century piece of Tasmania’s transport history is now the heart of one of the state’s most unusual farms.
Space with Fred Watson
Secrets of Martian riverbeds
New research adds weight to the suggestion of a long-lived ocean covering Mars’s northern hemisphere.
History & Culture
Notes from the field: Balancing act
When our Chief Sub-Editor Adam Scroggy isn’t at his desk preparing the Australian Geographic magazine for print, we send him out into the field to exercise his eye for a good story.
Biodiversity
Highs and lows
In an outback Queensland town, the health of a river shapes the health of a community – and much more beyond.
Events
The unlikely winners of the first car race around Australia
Early last century, three cars raced to complete the first lap around Australia. The unlikely winner was a tiny two-seater cabriolet – driven by two young missionaries.
Flora & Fauna
Fossils reveal rock-wallabies were once wanderers
Modern rock-wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas, but fossils show they need to travel.
Events
Sails are soaring
Step aboard the sporting juggernaut that’s showcasing Australia to audiences worldwide.
History & Culture
Dick Smith: Life of a larrikin
This self-made businessman, entrepreneur and Aussie icon shaped an extraordinary career by surrounding himself with the ‘right type of people’ – while never losing his boyish sense of adventure.
Flora & Fauna
Saving our darling devils
It has been 30 years since a deadly infectious cancer was first detected in the Tasmanian devil, threatening to send the species to extinction.