wildlife

“This wasn’t the first time we had travelled together, but travelling in Australia was a completely different experience to what we were used to.”

Enter our Weirdest Collective Nouns for Australian Animals…also known as a ‘List of Probably Useless Taxonomies that May Come up in Pub Trivia One Day’.

I’m listening to the beating heart of the Australian rainforest – a symphonic chorus of tweets and croaks against the low drone of cicadas – as I paddle down the slow-moving …

It’d be fair to say Australia’s wildlife ain’t the friendliest knocking about. Man-eating crocs, lady-eating sharks, baby-eating dingoes. Poisonous snakes, venomous spiders, sea snails fitted out with tiny toxic harpoons …

We’re lucky to have so many iconic critters as part of our landscape: kangaroos, possums, koalas, emus, crocodiles and rhinos. Wait, what? That’s right – in a world-first conservation push …

As night falls over Kangaroo Island, hundreds of local residents hop out from beneath the trees to graze on the grassy hills. They’re a special subspecies of Western Grey Kangaroo, native to …

It’s a rarity these days: a sleepy island that really lives up to the name. In a lot of ways, the 21st century left Kangaroo Island behind. Cut off from …

I don’t know what I expected swimming alongside a Whale Shark to remind me of, but what I didn’t expect it to remind me of was being a journalist chasing around …

Everybody has preconceived ideas about Australia, just like they do about everywhere. We’ve got some of the best beaches in the world (true). We all like vegemite, Rupert Murdoch and …