While most of us might wear a piece of jewellery or an adornment of some kind because we like it, or think it looks good, or because a loved one gave it to us, the people of Papua New Guinea look at it in a completely different way.
Your ultimate guide to the origins of our unique words and phrases.
Aspiring pilgrims don’t need to travel to Europe’s great caminos. Our Aussie Camino offers just as much natural beauty, physical challenge – and spiritual healing.
Work is underway to conserve the natural and cultural histories of this dramatically beautiful island, just off the northern NSW coast, and to retrieve what it’s already lost.
In this edited extract from Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien’s The Voice to Parliament Handbook, Marcia Langton and Fiona Stanley explain why Australia should vote Yes.
On the shores of Twofold Bay in southern New South Wales stands an old weatherboard cottage and the remains of a tryworks, a processing plant where oil was recovered from whale blubber.
A guide to Australia’s greatest natural and cultural treasures.
The first European paintings of Australian animals look so alien to our eyes.
Scattered along the old Hume Highway are relics of bygone eras, from retro petrol stations to bushranger haunts.
1894: Lawrence Hargrave lifts off in his box kite at Stanwell Park.