LIKE OUR columnist Tim the Yowie Man, we love a good mystery here at AG. So we couldn’t pass up the chance to run an article by TV journalist Ross Coulthart about his investigati ...

THE QUOKKA Quokka populations have declined hugely during the past 100 years due to introduced predators, habitat destruction and disease. The species is now listed as vulnerable o ...

RENOWNED investigative reporter Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since, as a teenager, he closely followed the 1978 New Zealand Kaikōura UFO sighting. Later, as a journal ...

RISKY BUSINESS We’ve been tidying up the family archives and came across some old photos that might be of interest. They were taken before I discovered the photographer’s mantr ...

For more: nga.gov.au/ THE NEW COMPANION piece to the hot air balloon creation Skywhale, for which Australian sculptor Patricia Piccinini was commissioned to celebrate Canberra’s ...

THE DESERT IS quiet for now, except for the sounds of our boots crunching over dry grass and padding across thick red dust as we approach a water-hole outside Alice Springs that on ...

IT’S ABOUT THE intoxicating flurry of dressing up in fashionable evening gowns or wearing a dashing suit so you look your stylish best alongside those who’ve seen you at your d ...

THE TAPERING AND sometimes towering mineral deposits called stalagmites, which rise from cave floors, have an internal structure that, like the rings of tree trunks, can retain cli ...

ON 17 AUGUST 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken from a tent at Uluru (then Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory, leading to one of Australia’s biggest legal and me ...

Rick Shine Rick is Australia’s leading expert on cane toads. He and his research team developed new methods to control the ecological impact of the invasive amphibians. In this e ...