Twenty-five year old Gunaikurnai woman Courtney Burns has been named the 2023 National NAIDOC Week Awards’ Youth of the Year.
For many millennia, Indigenous Australians have engineered the landscape using sophisticated technological and philosophical knowledge systems in a deliberate response to changing social and environmental circumstances.
Inspired by the Scottish Munros, peak baggers in Australia can now add the 158 Tasmanian Abels to their list of must-climb mountains.
Mildura, on the banks of the mighty Murray River, is in the middle of nowhere and the centre of everywhere.
Winter solstice is commemorated worldwide. But what exactly is it? And why does it happen?
1945: Australia plays a leading role in founding the United Nations.
Allan McCulloch was a pioneering scientist and talented illustrator who played a crucial role in developing the Australian Museum. History may have forgotten him, but his name lives on – in our rivers.
The worlds of science and art are colliding around Australia, and in the doing they’re inspiring climate action, citizen science and a sustainable future. Here’s some of our favourite examples.
In the lower reaches of Victoria’s Yarra River is the Fishermans Bend industrial precinct.
Australia is home to the world’s largest parasitic plant, a mighty mistletoe that blooms every December. It’s known as WA’s Christmas tree.