A bizarre government map of Australia from 1946 has labelled huge parts of the country 'useless' - including the nation's capital city. The 'habitability map' gives the blunt label to huge tracts of ...

A crumbling 17th century map of Australia—sketched more than 100 years before James Cook made his famed voyage to the continent—has been restored after a painstaking conservation project. And as Karen ...

Australia is in the midst of a massive brush fire season, with fires covering a much larger area than even California’s most devastating wildfires. To help visualize the size and scale of the fire ...

Lost for hundreds of years, a recently recovered map of Australia dating back to the 17th century has finally been restored and put on display at a museum in Canberra. The document chronicles the ...

The vast badge was created by homesick soldiers from the Australian Imperial Force who were preparing to fight - many of whom never made it back home. Over the years the 150ft (46m) wide map became ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have ...

For the third time since the start of Australia's fire season, a state of emergency has been declared in the Australian state of New South Wales due to fires that are burning out of control. The ...

Australia's heatwave is shifting north to northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, and the high temperatures are forecast to continue for the coming week. The Bureau of Meteorology's ...

South Australia's population is highly concentrated in urban areas, with about 80 per cent living in the Adelaide and outer surrounding areas. South Australia also has the highest proportion of older ...