Awe-inspiring wilderness, rugged coastline, award-winning produce and a mellow culture – Joanna Whitehead discovers why ...

Despite the accolade, it’s a relaxed, family-run joint dishing up a mouth-watering selection of locally ... We also spot an elusive platypus in a mountain lake, plus several wombats in this ...

I’m on a tiny cove near picturesque Binalong Bay on the north-east coast of Tasmania (Lutruwita, the Palawa Tasmanian Aboriginal name ... fringed by turquoise water, with nobody else on them.

A platypus bill may look like a duck’s bill, but it has a secret ability. The bill contains receptor cells that detect the electric signals made by all living things. As it swims in the water ...

Bill Sullivan receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Water that comes straight from natural sources, dubbed “raw water,” is gaining popularity. Raw water advocates reject ...

‘When you see that happening in front of you it is just amazing’: Despite his years of knowledge, Hobart’s own ‘platypus guardian’ is still amazed by the animal. How he’s sharing his ...

As such, Aboriginal peoples were quickly dismissed as lacking a written language. But this view is wrong. Aboriginal message sticks, traditional tools of communication, offer a glimpse into a ...

Now in its second year, the World’s Ugliest Lawn competition rewards lawn owners for not watering their parched yellow grass and patchy flowerbeds. The winning lawn in the settlement of Birdlings Flat ...

Record temperatures last year pushed the global water cycle to “new climatic extremes,” according to the Global Water Monitor 2024 report. The document, produced by an international consortium ...

The majority of people in custody in the territory are Aboriginal. Acting chief executive of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) Anthony Bevan said an average of 41 Aboriginal ...

WA's Liberal leader, Libby Mettam, has echoed the pledge of federal Opposition Leader Petter Dutton to not stand in front of the Aboriginal flag at media events if elected to the top office in March.

Remember: a peace lily is for life, not just to fill time between banana bread and Netflix. Luckily, the LeafyPod, an AI-assisted self-watering plant pot exhibited at this year’s reliably wacky ...