The Kimberley region is home to some of the oldest and most prolific collections of rock art in the world. Scientists are embarking on a detailed study attempting to date the art, and experts hope this will shed light on how long ago Aboriginal people first landed on this country.
AG photographer and musician Barry Skipsey composed and performed a song to help celebrate the magazine’s 30 birthday in 2016.
In her latest book, photographer Melanie Faith Dove depicts Australian mountain cattlemen through four seasons of work, from droving their cattle into the high country during summer, to mustering them home in autumn before the snow falls. In capturing the spirit of the mountain cattlemen, Melanie communicates the challenges they face; in May 2015, grazing cattle was banned in alpine national parks in Victoria, but the legend lives on in State Forests.
From historic river crossings to high-tech modern architecture, each of these bridges shines a different light on Australian ingenuity.
In workshops around the country, skilled Australian artisans are toiling and tinkering in an effort to save some of our oldest trades
Historians are calling for more information on never-before-seen photos of Australia’s 1965 Freedom Ride in protest of discrimination
One hundred photos of Australia’s Freedom Ride – the now historic 1965 campaign that protested discrimination against indigenous Australians – have been discovered in the archives of the State Library of NSW. Led by one of the first indigenous students at the University of Sydney, Kumantjayi (Charles) Perkins, the Freedom Ride was a bus tour of western and coastal NSW communities that received intense media coverage at the height of the ’60s indigenous civil rights movement. Put together by Sydney University’s Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA), the ride protested continued differences in indigenous and non-indigenous rights in Australia – particularly exclusion of indigenous people from using public places like the Bowraville Picture Theatre, the Walgett RSL and the Moree Baths. The historic photos were captured by photographer and journalist Noel Hazzard from The Tribune – a newspaper run by Communist Party of Australia – who spent one week in Moree and in nearby Walgett on the Freedom Ride. The images are now showing for the first time in an exhibition at the State Library of New South Wales called: Freedom Ride ’65: Unpublished photos from The Tribune Archive.
The winners of the 2015 International Landscape Photographer of the Year contest have been revealed
Anzac troops heading into the bloody conflicts of World War I used new handheld cameras to capture the true face of war for the first time
Forty years ago the remains of a man were found at Lake Mungo in NSW. This discovery would forever change our understanding of the Aboriginal history of Australia.