We often hear that Aboriginal peoples have been in Australia for 65,000 years, “the oldest living cultures in the world”. But what does this mean, given all living peoples on Earth have an ancestry that goes back into the mists of time?
The use of the prefix ‘great’ in Australian placename nomenclature is a prominent bookmark in our country’s past.
1975: The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is created.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first aerial circumnavigation of Australia. Aviator Michael Smith retraces the flight in his unique amphibious flying boat, Southern Sun, starting and finishing at RAAF Base Point Cook, on Melbourne’s Port Phillip, taking in 15,000km of vast, diverse and stunning coastline in between.
Coochiemudlo is just a stone’s throw from the Brisbane CBD, but the island’s protected wilderness areas, tight-knit community and slower pace of living make it feel as though it’s worlds away.
The legacy of the famed architect of the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin, is profoundly in evidence through his Aussie-based descendant, Chris Darwin.
How does a former mineworker from Broken Hill end up working for the world’s biggest space agency, NASA?
The Beatles began their first and only tour of Australia 60 years ago this week. It remains a landmark event in our social and cultural history.
Groundbreaking research has identified that levels of genetic diversity among Indigenous Australians may be among the highest in the world.
Thomas Watson was devastated when he discovered his traditional language, Gangulu, was no longer spoken, but his grief gave way to searching, a process that led thousands of kilometres around the world to an attic in Sweden.