History and Culture
Possums welcomed back to Country in Red Centre
Conservationists and Traditional Owners have celebrated the return of the common brushtail possum to Central Australia, where the species is locally extinct.
Category: History and Culture
History and Culture
Defining Moments in Australian History: Pemulwuy fights back
1792: First Nations man Pemulwuy leads resistance against British colonists.
History and 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.
History and Culture
The pearl principle
A community festival has helped keep the Kimberley Coast’s prestigious pearling industry alive, protecting it from a crisis caused by economic downturn and a disease.
History and Culture
Power of the dog
Thousands of travellers are drawn to Gundagai every week for a photo with the fabled Dog on the Tuckerbox, one of Australia’s smallest ‘big things’.
History & Culture
The Golden Age of Magic
Roll up, roll up, step behind the velvet curtain, and take a trip back in time to Australia’s Golden Age of Magic.
History and Culture
This giant kangaroo once roamed New Guinea – descended from an Australian ancestor that migrated millions of years ago
Long ago, almost up until the end of the last ice age, a peculiar giant kangaroo roamed the mountainous rainforests of New Guinea.
History and Culture
Recognising Indigenous knowledges is not just culturally sound, it’s good science
Floods, fires and droughts in Australia devastate lives, destroy wildlife and damage property. These disasters also cost billions of dollars through loss of agricultural and economic productivity, environmental vitality and costs to mental health. People are looking for long-term solutions from politicians and researchers.
History and Culture
High Country heroes
Devoted volunteers are keeping Australia’s alpine huts standing as havens for outdoor adventurers against harsh mountain weather.
History and Culture
Immersed in Martuwarra
A force of nature, an ancestral being, this Kimberley river has shaped the people and landscape of northern Australia since life began here.