Legends

Dorothea Mackellar became a national figure after she wrote My Country, six verses of superb description, which became Australia’s best-loved and most-quoted poem because it so well portrays...

It’s a crisp, clear morning in that lovely valley that slopes away to the south of Yass, NSW, along the road that heads to Canberra. Despite the drought there’s a tinge of green after...

There’s Jack Howe, in the main street of Blackall, carrying a bulky merino ram out to be shorn just as he did on the boards of the great pastoral stations of Queensland’s central west a...

Across much of eastern Australia, from central Queensland in the north to the shoreline of Bass Strait in the south, there are scores of monuments standing resolutely by the major highways, alongside...

Freeman Cobb, the son of a Cape Cod sea captain, was only 23 when he and a senior official were sent from the United States to Melbourne in 1853 to investigate the possibility of setting up a branch...

His Honour is in town and has some availability,” says the message from the viceregal staff in Darwin. “His Honour has indicated he would be happy to participate in an interview and to...

At the entrance to the National Herbarium of Victoria in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens is the bust of a bearded, thoughtful-looking man bedecked with decorations. The accompanying tablet...

An Auster aircraft painted distinctively in white and yellow with the name ‘Hope’ written in black just below the cockpit is suspended from the ceiling of the Business of Mining Gallery...

It’s mid-morning Tuesday, sale day, at Camperdown in Victoria’s Western District, and the Roycrofts, probably Australia’s most famous equestrian family, are here in force....

As the Great Western Highway stretches out from Sydney, the path to the west seems totally straightforward. And it is – now. It’s not until near Penrith that a long block of hazy, blue...

There are not too many visible reminders in Australia of the explorations across the continent by Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt, who was always known as Ludwig. There is a tree on which he...

John Macarthur-Stanham is outside checking on the cows and chickens. His wife, Edwina, is inside making morning tea for some visitors. The children – William, 16, Victoria, 14, and George, 11...