History & Culture
Cue the music
Groundbreaking musician and composer Aaron Wyatt is making up for lost time.
Tag: Australians
History & Culture
What’s behind our fascination for naming places ‘great’?
The use of the prefix ‘great’ in Australian placename nomenclature is a prominent bookmark in our country’s past.
History & Culture
Awakening a sleeping language
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.
Science & Environment
Protecting our pollinators
Meet the Aussie beekeepers giving back after their revolutionary hive design caused a buzz in apiaries worldwide.
Science & Environment
Chasing the Sun
With visions of a more sustainable future, teams from across the globe drive from Darwin to Adelaide in futuristic solar-powered vehicles, in one of the world’s most gruelling innovation and engineering competitions.
History & Culture
Indigenous rock-art sites ‘chosen’ for vantage
Researchers have discovered internationally significant rock-art sites in Arnhem Land were far from random and instead ‘chosen’ for the critical vantage points they provided.
AG Society News
World-beater solo yachtswoman Lisa Blair racks up two big sailing records while taking her climate message across the ditch
Breaking world sailing records seems to come naturally to Lisa Blair. Her beaming face and calm, but celebratory, arrivals in destination ports give little away of the perils, discomforts and sheer loneliness of the epic ocean voyages she completes.