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Australian colonial art uncovered in Canada

Original artworks depicting 19th century colonial Australia have been found in a cupboard in Canada.

This year’s winners of the PM Science Prizes include chemists who rewrote the textbooks on plastics.

A photographer recorded the little-known experience of Australia’s German prisoners

100 years ago, the sugar industry was almost brought to its knees by its biggest strike, bringing large reforms.

With a 40-year career, zookeeper Terry Boylan has just about seen it all, including some amazing escapes.

A jetpack invented by a New Zealander is one step closer to commercialisation after lifitng 1.5km off the ground.

The tattooed, mummified head of a Maori tribesman will be returned to New Zealand, from France, after 136 years.

Frank Povah chats about the history of this classic Aussie word for ‘fool’.

A team of adventurers plan to break a Guiness World Record by pushing a rail car across Australia.

Polynesian people may have populated the Pacific via New Guinea rather than Taiwan as previously thought.