Category: News

The Goulburn River might have returned to a familiar height after flooding the Shepparton region in October, but its banks aren’t the same. Erosion has stripped tree roots naked and the scrub has a crust of dry mud after spending weeks underwater. People living nearby have changed, too. Yorta Yorta rapper and spoken word artist […]

A regional Victorian teenager has plans to take the charity she started to help children with autism and intellectual disabilities beyond Australia to the rest of the world. At 13 years old, Keeley Murphy was struggling in the mainstream school system. Keeley has autism and as she prepared to tackle high school was also diagnosed […]

Pieces of broken coral are being rescued and rehabilitated in “nurseries” so they can be transplanted back onto the Great Barrier Reef, but marine scientists say it’s no substitute for action on climate change. A recent report from the UN has recommended that the reef be added to the World Heritage “in danger” list, and […]

When sisters Cassandra Prince and Cynthia Nicholls first pulled a rock-like object from the ground of their outback cattle property, they had no clue it was a 100-million-year-old fossil. The pair, along with their cousin Sally, are the trio of fossil hunters behind the discovery of Australia’s first complete plesiosaur fossil with head and body […]

Primary school students have taken to one of Australia’s most famous beaches to help protect nesting turtles vulnerable to climate change and roving four-wheel-drives. Cable Beach is home to the understudied flatback turtle, which often nest near where they were born. After turtle nests were run over and hatchlings caught in tyre ruts, a section […]

Every November, Andrea O’Halloran gets to watch a field of fluffy, pink and white peonies explode from the red dirt of her family farm. It’s a sight she’ll never grow tired of. “It’s lovely, I really look forward to November each year,” she admitted. “I find it so amazing … this paddock, would you believe, […]

As a child, Peter Rymill recalls bedtime stories told by his father of polar adventures, husky sledging teams and icy landscapes. His late father, John Riddoch Rymill, was the Australian leader of the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) to Antarctica that took place between 1934 and 1937. He had learned how to survive in polar […]