Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

The northern hairy-nosed wombat, once near extinction with only 35 left, has rebounded to 400 due to conservation efforts.

Courtesy of St George Chinese Community Memorial Committee In the mid-1800s, 300 Chinese villagers escaped from famine to Australia working as shepherds and tended more than 450,000 sheep ...

This became the trigger for the Frontier Wars , the brutal conflicts between the Indigenous peoples and the settlers that marked the foundation of Australia. A history that is only starting to be ...