Australian Geographic Magazine
Recalling the inferno
There's no better motivation for leaving fossil fuels in the ground than the scars left by Black Summer.
2 min |
January-February 2024
Australian Geographic Magazine
SHORT ON TREES, BIG ON STORY
Gold was once the reward for digging at Kosciuszko National Park's Long Plain. Now a rich history awaits, just below the surface.
5 min |
January-February 2024
Australian Geographic Magazine
UP AND AWAY
California’s famous Pacific Airshow landed – for the first time – on the Gold Coast in August 2023, for three days of non-stop, sky-high thrills.
10+ min |
January-February 2024
Australian Geographic Magazine
RESCUING THE GODDESS OF THE GRASSLANDS
An unlikely collaboration between Queensland pastoralists and conservationists is helping save one of our prettiest and rarest parrots.
6 min |
January-February 2024
Australian Geographic Magazine
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAINS
Inspired by the Scottish Munros, peak baggers in Australia can now add the 158 Tasmanian Abels to their list of must-climb mountains.
10+ min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
CAN AIR TRAVEL EVER REALLY BE SUSTAINABLE?
A raft of new technologies promise to make jetting off on holiday less damaging to our planet, but what difference will they really make, and should we all be ditching the departure lounge for the railway station and the bus depot?
6 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
FOLLOW YOUR ART
Victoria's burgeoning Silo Art Trail is bringing tourists to towns and pride to rural communities.
9 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
Kailu George Jr
A continuation in the series of interviews between First Nations advocate Thomas Mayo (An invitation to listen, AG 170) and the Indigenous community leaders he has met since he toured Australia in 2019 with the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
5 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
Neanderthal DNA kills superbugs
SUPERBUGS ARE BACTERIA nasty enough to kill people. Worse, they are almost totally resistant to most antibiotics.
1 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
Unsuitable for females
Women's soccer was banned in the 1920s. A century on, Australia co-hosts the Women's World Cup.
2 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
A BIRDING PARADISE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
New Zealand's birdlife has been heavily affected by introduced feral predators, but Rakiura is an avian utopia.
6 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
Where did Earth's water come from?
OUR PLANET’S OCEANS are something we take for granted. But for planetary scientists seeking to understand their origin, there are questions to be answered.
1 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
The devil's advocates
Get up close and personal with the world's largest marsupial carnivore on Aussie Ark's Australian Geographic Expedition.
6 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS
More Australians want to reduce their environmental impact and travel with purpose. But working out how sustainable your holiday might be is far from easy.
9 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
High seas safeguard
For the first time, oceans beyond national water boundaries have been officially recognised for protection.
2 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
5 EPIC DRIVES IN NORTH QUEENSLAND
From the river crossings and corrugations of a Cape York adventure or the red sands and gorge country of the Outback, to an island exploration or driving from reef to rain-forest, North Queensland serves up the very best of Aussie road trips, where the drive is just as important as the destination.
7 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
A BIT OF EVERYTHING
Mildura, on the banks of the mighty Murray River, is in the middle of nowhere and the centre of everywhere,
10+ min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
The Flying Pieman
IT'S ONE OF THOSE yarns you hear sitting around a pub on a Friday evening and accept with a grain or two of salt.
2 min |
July - August 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
Blade trees
TIM THE YOWIE MAN
2 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
A CAMEL ODYSSEY COMPLETE
We return to Sophie Matterson’s solo crossing of Australia, where highways replace deserts and new challenges arise.
10 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
JUST ADD WATER
Australia’s wetlands are pulsing with life after three years of above‑average rainfall, fuelled by La Niña weather patterns
4 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
HOME FOR WILDLIFE ART RECEIVES A BOOST
The Wildlife Art Museum of Australia has been awarded funds by the Victorian state government that move it closer towards its goal of becoming Australia’s first national repository of art inspired by nature
2 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
Barbara Shaw
Kaytetye, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu, Northern Territory
5 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
Weld Angel
Matthew Newton’s haunting image became a potent symbol of the anti-logging movement that helped save Tasmania’s Weld Valley forest
3 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
STINSON CRASH REMEMBERED
A gruelling mountain trek pays homage to the victims of a tragic air crash and honours its heroes
10+ min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
THE TREES THAT WEPT CIDER
The battle is on to save what’s left of one of Tasmania’s most endangered and intriguing eucalypts
6 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
KELPIE COUNTRY
Warrock in western Victoria is the birthplace of Australia’s beloved working dog, the kelpie
7 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
FROM OUTBACK TO OCEAN
A river safari o ers two contrasting stages of the River Murray in South Australia, delivering a delightful immersion in its historic, natural and cultural values
10 min |
May - June 2023
Australian Geographic Magazine
DOWN-UNDER ORIGIN FOR ALL MODERN MAMMALS
In new Australian research that challenges hundreds of years of scientific dogma, mammal evolution began in the Southern, not Northern, Hemisphere.
4 min |
Australian Geographic #173
Australian Geographic Magazine
THE ENCHANTED ISLES
Long isolated, undiscovered and uninhabited, the Galápagos offers a rare window into a time when nature reigned supreme.
10+ min |