Palmetum Park and Dugong Conservation

This is my week to play, to revisit old haunts, to embrace Townsville in a lingering smooch before Vilis and I head to Canberra to spend six days in the nation’s capital, and then are caught up ...

Roos and their Rellies

Of all Australia’s iconic animals, kangaroos are arguably the best-known around the world, their popularity perhaps enhanced by that white, stylized depiction of a roo painted on the red tails o...

Australian Extreme Weather Events

For the first time in months, I carried an umbrella when walking to the store this afternoon, rain spitting down around me, the street pavement damp, strips and small puddles of water lying against cu...

Sorry Day

This is a brave country, owning up to its past, to the injustices it has meted out. On February 13, 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized, on behalf of the Australian federal parliament,...