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Australian Geographic, Australia’s premier geographic journal, brings you the best of the country from those who know it best. Discover Australia’s rich cultural heritage, its beautiful landscapes, its unique and diverse plants and wildlife, and explore outback towns and the true-blue characters who call them home.

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Big Picture: Southern Lights Spectacular

Geobits: Bite-sized news and events

Snapshot: Capturing despair • Nothing quite brought home the national shock of the tragedy of Cyclone Tracy in 1974 like this image. But what’s the full story behind it?

Tim the Yowie Man: The man buried three times

Treading Lightly: For the love of Mallee • Move slowly and quietly in this specialist Australian arid habitat and you might be rewarded by seeing one of the world’s rarest birds.

Australia Portrait: Cue the Music • Groundbreaking musician and composer Aaron Wyatt is making up for lost time.

Protecting our pollinators • Meet the Aussie beekeepers giving back after their revolutionary hive design caused a buzz in apiaries worldwide.

Earth View Perspective: The real natural history of our tall, wet forests • History and science reveal the true story of mountain ash forests and should inform best management practice for these crucial ecosystems.

Need to Know with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki: Drunk from the inside

Defining Moments: Protecting the GBR • 1975 The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is created.

Space: Gamma-ray lighthouses

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Sense of Place: A place of last resort • Museums Victoria’s living biobank is a repository of frozen potential, safeguarding the very essence of the animals that make Australia so remarkable.

Our early weathermen • Survival on the roof of mainland Australia was an unenviable but necessary challenge that tested the endurance skills of 19th-century weather forecasters.

Rescuing the Chuditch • After intensive planning, recovery for this endangered marsupial species is being stepped up to secure its future.

Looking for Tjakura • The search is on across Australia’s deserts for a culturally important vulnerable lizard.

A wild polo tussle • It’s an event reminiscent of a Banjo Paterson poem. For 35 years, in the High Country 200km east of Melbourne, city polo players have gathered annually at Cobungra, Victoria’s largest cattle station, to vie with a rural team for the Dinner Plain Polo Cup.

More than quokkas • Sure, you can’t avoid those cute little marsupials that made Rottnest Island world-famous, but there’s so much more to life on this ocean-ringed jewel off the Western Australian coast.

Clear-cutting koala country • More than 3000sq.km of forests on NSW’s Mid North Coast have been earmarked for the Great Koala National Park. But there’s still work to be done before this proposed reserve becomes the safe haven koalas desperately need.

Around Australia in 44 days • This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first aerial circumnavigation of Australia. Aviator Michael Smith retraces the flight in his unique amphibious flying boat, Southern Sun, starting and finishing at RAAF Base Point Cook, on Melbourne’s Port Phillip, taking in 15,000km of vast, diverse and stunning coastline in between.

A beautiful disaster • Does last summer’s mass coral bleaching event sound a death knell for Australia’s beloved Great Barrier Reef? “Not on my watch!” is the message coming from the army of heartbroken, but resolute, marine scientists who’ve responded to the crisis by doubling down on their research.

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