Adelaide’s construction boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries created demand for the raw materials needed to build the civic, religious and commercial buildings that define its elegant city centre. One of those materials was lime, a key component in high-quality mortar and plaster for thousands of years.
Buried in a eucalypt-clad hill beside the Shoalhaven River, the new Bundanon Art Museum safeguards some of the nation’s most precious artworks from flood and fire.
On the fifth anniversary of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, we take a look back at this momentous day in Australian history, and explain exactly what the statement asked of all Australians.
When it comes to Australian culture, this country has an ongoing and inexplicably profound connection to the USA’s ‘King of Rock and Roll’, Elvis Presley.
One hundred years ago, what we now know as Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair NP was first declared a protected area.
On the bicentenary of the European honey bee’s introduction to Australia, should we be celebrating? We take a look at the effects – good and bad – the honey bee has had on our environment and society.
Carving a corrosive path through remote inland Australia, the Dingo Barrier Fence has cast a 70-year shadow over the ecology of a significant body of the Australian continent, while also providing a critical lifeline to the nation’s iconic sheep industry.
Photographer Adam Ferguson travelled the fence in search of the people whose remote lives and livelihoods depend on it.
In her 70 years as queen, Elizabeth II has visited Australia on 16 occasions, but with changing attitudes to the British monarchy, there has never been a royal tour quite like the first. Photographer Max Dupain turned his camera on the crowds lining Sydney’s thoroughfares.
With vast swathes of Kakadu NP now returned to Traditional Owners and the Ranger uranium mine closing, it’s a brand new day for this wildlife- and wetland-infused country.