History & Culture
Top 10 heroic animal stories in Australia
From transporting wounded soldiers to performing CPR, our furry friends are often helping us in more ways than one.
History & Culture
Lores Bonney: the forgotten aviatrix
Brisbane pilot Lores Bonney broke many records during the 1930s, narrowly cheating death several times. Despite being lauded as the first woman to fly solo from Australia to England, she remains little known today.
History & Culture
Did a 19th-century sailor get swallowed by a sperm whale and survive?
It depends what you believe when you read the papers.
History & Culture
VIDEO: Meet the maker of monsters
Interview with Academy Award winning special effects artist, John Cox.
History & Culture
In pictures: 2016 Wings Over Illawarra airshow
Planes zoom overhead at the biggest annual airshow in the country, while punters crawl around the static displays with dreams of flight gleaming in their eyes. Read more about this event in the March-April issue of Australian Geographic (AG#137).
History & Culture
Celluloid dreaming
We look back at how the landscapes and legends of our continent have shaped Australia’s movie industry.
History & Culture
Parrot pie and possum curry – how colonial Australians embraced native food
The first European settlers in Australia used a dizzying array of flora and fauna in their kitchens – but they cooked them in a traditional British style.
History & Culture
LISTEN: Only known audio of indigenous Tasmanian words
Wax cylinders hold the only known recordings of any indigenous Tasmanian language.
History & Culture
The art of aeons
Emerging from the world’s oldest living culture, contemporary Aboriginal art has taken to the global stage to tell tales of ancient landscapes and storylines.
History & Culture
Australia’s emblematic beauties illustrated
Valued for their ecological and cultural values, Australia’s floral emblems represent the beauty and diversity of all our native flowers.