Sometimes, saving a species means treating one animal at a time. The veterinarians at The Wildlife Hospital, Dunedin do just that, going small to go big by...

"Its super long fluffy tail gave it away "The first time I saw one, I was leading a night walk and we heard this big crash in...

Located in a remote location roughly 50km south-west of Melbourne, Australia, the ancient Aboriginal site of Wurdi Youang is comprised of a stone arrangement that aligns with...

The sunroof was open and the tinted windows were wound down. It was the closest I could get to soaking in the surrounds of desert and sea...

“Imagine flying through an old-growth forest,” said Mick Baron, owner of Eaglehawk Dive Centre in south-eastern Tasmania, when I asked the scuba-diving veteran what it was like...

On 15 December 2019, a firefighting operation in Australia’s Blue Mountains, New South Wales (NSW), went catastrophically wrong. Driven by erratic, gale-force winds, the back-burn – an...

Rain finally started falling from the dark clouds above the banks of the Hawkesbury River in the small town of Yarramundi, located 70km north-west of Sydney at...

On 15 March 1911, Michel Santoro met Euphemia Gordon outside a motion-picture theatre in Sydney, a seemingly random encounter that gave me a chance at life. Santoro,...

“Can you remind me why we’re here?” my husband asked, sounding slightly annoyed. I’d promised him a mini break by the sea, sans kids for the first...

Baking a “pav” and turning up to a backyard barbecue with the dessert in hand is about as Australian as it gets. On Christmas Day, soon after...