Nea Kameni: Santorini’s Volcanic Caldera and a Landscape Still Forming

Nea Kameni: Santorini’s Volcanic Caldera and a Landscape Still Forming Nea Kameni, “the New Burnt Island”, is the young volcanic island at the centre of Santorini’s flooded caldera, a dark mound of lava about two kilometres across that has grown out of the sea through a series of eruptions over the last few centuries, most […]

Sydney Opera House, Australia

Sydney Opera House Design The iconic Sydney Opera House is one of the great buildings of the 20th century. The World Heritage-listed building is an image of great beauty – a masterpiece or architecture that is known throughout the world. For decades, ideas had floated around to build a dedicated performing arts centre in Sydney, […]

Tips for Packing Light

25 Tips to Travel Light Packing light isn’t easy, but if done properly it can bring unheard benefits to your travels. By streamlining your packing down to hand luggage only, you can save a great deal of money on check-in fees, reduce your carbon footprint as a lighter plane uses less fuel, and skip those […]

The Nullarbor Plain: Australia’s Vast Limestone Wilderness

The Nullarbor Plain Inland from the Great Australian Bight, straddling Western Australia and South Australia, is the world’s largest limestone plain – the Nullarbor. The flat, almost treeless landscape of semi-arid country stretches about 1,200…

Responsible Travel Tips

35 Tips for the Responsible Traveller The tourism industry is one of the world’s most powerful, accounting for around 10% of the world’s jobs and GDP, and with nearly 1.2 billion people a year taking international flights. Travelling in a responsible and sustainable manner thus has the potential to reap extensive benefits. Unfortunately, though, many […]

Norman Tindale

Norman Tindale’s Aboriginal Tribes of Australia Norman B Tindale – pioneering anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist, and ethnologist – is best remembered for his work mapping the distribution of Indigenous Australian people and their languages. His lifetime project utilised data from various sources, including his own field observations in Aboriginal communities all over Australia from as early […]

Kunmunya Mission, Western Australia

Originally established by the Presbyterian Church in 1913 at Port George IV Port, in 1920 the mission moved to Kunmunya for more arable land and a better water supply. Here it existed until 1951, when the residents agreed to relocate to Wotjulum Mission.

Pastoral Pioneers of the Kimberley, Western Australia

In 1880 news reached the little town of Pinjarah, Western Australia (then the Swan River Colony), of the wonderful, rich, extensive land in the Kimberly recently explored by Alexander Forrest and party. Upon hearing the news, pioneer Hamlet Cornish, along with A. R. Richardson, W. Paterson, G. Paterson and S.R. Elliott quickly formed a syndicate, the “Murray Squatting Company”, and set out to adventure in the new country. They secured a schooner, “Mary Smith”, and in October 1880, with 700 sheep, seven horses, nine men in total, and enough supplies for twelve months, set sail from Fremantle.

Warri and Yatungka: Last of the Gibson Desert Nomads

Warri and Yatungka were the last of the Mandildjara nomadic people to remain in their country – the Western Gibson Desert region of Western Australia. Having fall in love in the 1930s, they chose to elope as Indigenous tribal law forbade their relationship.

Cape York, Queensland

Cape York Peninsula, located in Far North Queensland, is the northern-most extremity of Australia. Consisting of an area of about 220,000 sq km, the landmass extends northwards into the Torres Strait, surrounded by the Gulf of Carpentaria to the west and the Coral Sea to the east. It is renowned for its vast areas of unspoiled wildness, including eucalyptus-wooded savannahs, tropical rainforests, rugged mountains, large sand dunes, perched lakes, and more, all preserved for their global environmental significance.

Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula region offers 700 kilometres of spectacular coastal scenery, pristine white beaches, and azure seas, contrasting starkly with the mallee landscape behind. One of South Australia’s most accessible seaside holiday escapes, the leg-shaped peninsula is located just an hour’s drive west from Adelaide, surrounded by Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent.

Cobar visited, New South Wales

a fascinating town filled with cultural, historic and natural attractions. On a trip here you can explore museums, colonial 19th century architecture, lush wetlands, some of Australia’s largest and most important Aboriginal rock paintings, and the region’s rich mining history.

France and an Australian Colony

Colonial Australia could quite easily have been split between Great Britain and France. In 1772, an explorer called Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn landed at Shark Bay and claimed Western Australia for the French, just two years after Captain Cook

Motorcycle safety Australian outback

As a rider, you have invested in your bike, it is important and responsible to yourself and for those who care about you including your family that you take any chosen outback motorcycle adventures with your safety and those of your travelling companions as the priority. It will never be a good story if you do not return or do but are permanantly disabled through just a second of lapsed concentration.

Sydney learning for tours

Phillip’s choice of the settlement site fitted well with an officer of naval background as first of all soundings taken in the harbour revealed it to be deep and apparently with hidden shoals or rocks. A fresh water stream ran down to the harbour front while the reports speak of little undergrowth and numerous large trees indicating a fertile soil.

John Eales: King of the Hunter

John Eales’ Life & Legacy By Marco Stojanovik When John Eales died at Duckenfield in 1871, he was reputed to have been one the wealthiest men in New South Wales. From the moment he set foot in the colony, arriving from England in 1823, he had been determined to make his mark. Originally taking up […]

Charles Sturt and the search for the inland sea

In 1844, the explorer Captain Charles Sturt set out with a large party into the central Australia to find what he believed would be the Australia inland sea. This latest course of exploration had begun at Narrandera, onto Balranald where the party crossed the Murrumbidgee river towards the Simpson desert.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service History

May 1928, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) was born, taking its first flight across the skies of Cloncurry, Queensland, on a life-saving mission.

Australian Bushfires

The Black Summer: An Unprecedented Australian Bushfire Season Fire and fire management has historically been part of the this continents fabric. Ecosystems have adapted to fire from the regeneration of Eucalpyt forests to triggers for Leptospermum seeds to germinate after a fire event. However, Australia experienced unprecedented fires during the 2019-20 bushfire season, September to […]

Alice Springs, Australia

Alice Springs is home to a thriving hub of Aboriginal culture and art, with the town’s cultural infrastructure and renown illustrating a national profile that far outsizes the town’s relatively small size.

The Yarra Valley, Victoria

The Yarra Valley is one of the state’s most popular tourist destinations, with its rich culinary and wine culture attracting visitors from the busy city, as well as from all over the country. For the avid wine lover, or epicurean, the Yarra Valley is definitely one of Australia’s must see destinations, with over 80 wineries in the Yarra Valley wine region.