History & Culture
Australia’s unsung hero
Australian George Hubert Wilkins was highly regarded in the USA, where he was famous for his brave exploits, but he’s still largely unknown in his home country.
History & Culture
The bigger they come
Sure, Egypt has the Great Sphinx of Giza and the Pyramid of Cheops, but Australia has giant prawns.
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Up and away
California’s famous Pacific Airshow landed – for the first time – on the Gold Coast in August 2023, for three days of non-stop, sky-high thrills.
History & Culture
The macabre history of Canberra’s ‘haunted’ NFSA building
The National Film and Sound Archives in Canberra is housed in a building with stripped classical architecture and Art Deco elements. But look closer and you’ll see wombat faces peeping through roundels, goannas carved on the heads of columns, frill-necked lizards framing the front entrance and a skylight in the foyer featuring a stylised platypus. These details are a window into its past as the National Museum of Australian Zoology, later renamed the Australian Institute of Anatomy.
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The Batavia’s story of mutiny and murder gets a new chapter
Archaeologists have unearthed new evidence of a 400-year-old bloody battle on a remote Western Australian island.
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Defining Moments in Australian History: Age pension introduced
1908: Legislation pledges financial support for elderly or infirm Australians.
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Eye of the storm
To stay or go? Tracey Nearmy’s photo captures a couple’s dilemma during Black Summer.
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Join the hunt for Bäuerlen’s long-lost legendary ferns
New research points to a pair of nineteenth-century albums of pressed plants as possibly being created by botanist Wilhelm Bäuerlen. Are there others out there?
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Mummies Down Under
The epic Ramses II exhibition arrives in Sydney for its only stop in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Sleeping with champions
Legendary trainer Tommy Woodcock’s affinity with horses was captured before the 1977 Melbourne Cup.