If warmer weather appeals to you, this may just be the time to plan your trip to New Zealand. In a couple of months it will be spring, and soon ... Read More

In the story of the Ned Kelly gang only the bushranger Ned Kelly survived the shootout at Glenrowan in 1880. The rest of his gang died in the gunbattle with ... Read More

Aboriginal rock art, spectacular mountain ranges, walking tracks, a variety of wildlife and wildflowers -- all combine to create a natural bush and mountains environment at Grampians National Park west ... Read More

Don't get caught open-mouthed as your Aussie mates bandy rhyming slang all around you. It's not really all that hard once you get the hang of it but it may ... Read More

Have your "Moby Dick" experience at Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island between Picton and Christchurch. Have a whale of a tale, or vice-versa.

The albino humpback whale named Migaloo is back in Australian waters. According to the Pacific Whale Foundation, Migaloo is the only known occurrence of an all-white humpback whale, and has ... Read More

Two humpback whales yesterday swam into Sydney Harbour, frolicking in the waters of Manly Cove unconcerned with the many onlookers on shore and in boats. It is the whale migration ... Read More

It's blue and it's royal and it's native to the area's woodland. Here's a picture...

Stromatolites found at their most diverse and in great abundance at Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia, may look like rocks but they are in fact living things, believed to ... Read More

In an almost mythic setting of glacial lake, river torrents and snow-capped ranges, Queenstown throbs with the excitement of active leisure sports -- and adventure! -- whatever the season.

During the wildflower season, walk among the masses of flowers at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, Western Australia. But even when it's not wildflower time, there are always ... Read More

Cardinal George Pell, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, was one of seven Australians to be selected for the highest honor, Companion of the Order of Australia, in the Australia Day ... Read More

Except in Western Australia which has it in September this year, Australia is celebrating the Queen's Birthday today. New Zealand, of course, marked it last week. In New South Wales, ... Read More

The New South Wales South Coast is a long fishing strip extending from just south of Sydney down to the Victorian border. Even if fishing's not your thing, a drive ... Read More

The film The Last Samurai brings into sharp focus the countryside where much of the movie was shot, not in Japan which is the story's setting but in that western ... Read More

For many visitors to Australia, opals are a distinctively Australian purchase. It's important to know the different types of opal so one is not misled into paying excessively for stones ... Read More