People & Culture Archives

Australian centenarians: how to live past 100

These Australian centenarians knows what it takes to live to triple figures.

Once famed for its dugouts and abundance of opals, today Coober Pedy is rich in other gems.

New research suggests there were more than a dozen different Aboriginal language groups in Tasmania.

Adventure

Pushed to the brink of exhaustion, lone adventurers are known to seek solace from a surprising source – themselves.

Australian English has given birth to a flourishing fauna of diminutives.

Legendary shark filmmaker and conservationist, Ron Taylor, has died at the age of 78.

We speak to the three original members of The Sapphires on whose lives the Australian hit movie is based.

These Indigenous Protected Areas are stunning landscapes in Australia’s Top End.

Historical re-enactment festivals are more popular than ever. Take a photographic tour of one of Australia’s largest.

A study of shipwrecks since 1852 has revealed that men generally save themselves on sinking ships.