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.
In an unprecedented, and largely spontaneous, sign of national solidarity for reconciliation and support for First Nations people, more than 250,000 people walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 28 May 2000.
1832: Aid to encourage migrants to Australia begins.
Once a prosperous and thriving community, the uranium-mining town of Mary Kathleen, about 50km by road east of Mount Isa in north-western Queensland, is now a ghost town.
Colour fills the skies above Northam, Western Australia, as the Top Guns of the balloon world chase glory in the Women’s World Hot Air Balloon Championship.