Australian radio celebrates 100 years on air
It is 100 years since the first radio show was broadcast to Australian listeners from a Sydney station. Radio has come a long way in a century and is still as relevant today as it was in 1923
It is 100 years since the first radio show was broadcast to Australian listeners from a Sydney station. Radio has come a long way in a century and is still as relevant today as it was in 1923
A two-cornered hat famously worn by French emperor Napoleon Boneparte during his reign in the 1800s has fetched a huge price at auction. We look back at Napoleon’s adventurous life
A shipwreck with the largest amount of treasure ever lost at sea will soon be dragged up to the surface after sitting at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea for the last three centuries
His story has been largely lost to history, but the youngest jockey ever to win the Melbourne Cup was a ‘little freckled lad’ from Victoria – and he was only 11 years old
As war in Israel and Gaza sadly rages, cartoonist Mark Knight’s depiction of former Australian PMs’ call to calm reminds the nation of the most powerful, precious asset we have: peace
The discovery of a 5000km-wide piece of land thought to have broken off Australia 155 million years ago has helped geologists piece together the history of Earth’s continents
A colossal sea creature with a 1.3-metre jaw, named Lorrainosaurus, rewrites history as scientists unveil an ancient megapredator from the dinosaur era
Tasmania’s famous thylacines could be back from extinction by 2028, according to the project team, but not all wildlife experts think resurrecting and releasing the species is such a good idea
Happy little Vegemites have extra spring while they spread as Australia’s unofficial national spread clocks a century, with fans including retired tennis ace and new mum Ash Barty
Bobi, the 31-year-old dog who set a Guinness World Record earlier this year for being the oldest living dog, has sadly died in Portugal
Happy passengers celebrated the birthday bash of a lifetime aboard the Zig Zag Railway, one of the greatest Australian engineering feats of the 1800s
As the Sydney Opera House reaches its 50th anniversary, we take a look back at some highlights since its opening in 1973
Anthony Albanese said we need ‘a new way forward’ after Australians overwhelmingly voted against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the referendum
Sudden, shocking events in faraway places can be pretty confusing and scary – but it helps to know what is going on, how it started and what the UN and world leaders are doing to respond
New research into the fossilised remains of human footprints shows humans may have lived in the Americas more than 21,000 years ago – about 6,000 years earlier than first thought
Known on social media as ‘Bondi Treasure Hunter’, Leigh Webber found a safe while fishing with a giant magnet overseas – and inside was something incredible
The first ever Indigenous boy named school captain at his Queensland high school, Brisbane Broncos star Selwyn Cobbo has one eye on the ball and the other on permanent, positive change
Australia is not known as a bilingual nation, but for many First Nations communities, English is a second language and bilingual books and songs celebrate culture and support childhood literacy
Loch Ness monster hunters in Scotland have heard noises beneath the water during the biggest search for ‘Nessie’ in 50 years
Mark Knight’s cartoon suggests that the game-changing success of the Matildas’ World Cup wasn’t reaching the semi-finals for the first time, it was forever shifting the goalposts for women’s sports