History & Culture
Papua New Guinea’s first conservation area
An AGS-funded project is working with the traditional tribes of Papua New Guinea to protect endangered wildlife in the nation’s first major conservation area
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The lighthouse keeper’s daughter
Stationed at the town of Albany, WA, in November 1914, soldiers turned to the girl on Breaksea Island to send their messages home
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The last of the traditional servos
Brisbane’s Buckland Auto is one of Australia’s few remaining legitimate ‘servos’ – where your petrol is pumped for you and a bonafide grease monkey tinkers out the back.
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Lasseters Camel Cup
Every year, thousands of visitors descend on Alice Springs’ Blatherskite Park for one of our more informal race meetings
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Inventor Lawrence Hargrave: face of the old Australian $20 note
From 1966 to 1994, Australia’s $20 bill featured a little-known inventor who made a major contribution to the invention of the aeroplane.
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Remembering Indigenous Anzacs
Indigenous Australians were forbidden from voting in 1914, but that didn’t stop them from enlisting when war broke out.
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Gallery: Aussie animal war mascots
A surprising number of animals pop up in the Australian War Memorial’s image library. Some of them were useful members of a unit, others were just a comfort to the men or a reminder of home. For animals this was sometimes for better or for worse, but they are nonetheless part of the story of the Australians at war. Here are some of the animal companions of our troops from WWI to WWII.
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Video: Last of the servos
Brisbane’s Buckland Auto is one of the last legitimate ‘servos’ – where petrol is pumped for you and a grease monkey tinkers out back
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Digger mascots: kangaroo gives morale to WWI troops
Roos traveled all over the world with young soldiers as they were sent to fight in far flung wars.
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Creating the first map of the world’s ocean floor
The ability to imagine the contours of the ocean floor led cartographer Marie Tharp to forever change our understanding of the forces shaping the planet.