Here be dragons!

A new species of aquatic dragon has been discovered off the coast of Terra Australis.

Colonialism’s tragic legacy: It’s still with us

Suicides and collective trauma in Australia and Canada.

Down under with Mark Twain

In Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (1897), Mark Twain recalls visiting Australia, where he noted the strange names of local communities.

The right to remember and not necessarily to forgive

For over a century, Canada tried to assimilate its Aboriginal people, including setting up a system that sanctioned the kidnapping of native children. A reckoning was long overdue.

Immutable Australia – until ecological vandals got hold of it

Noah’s Ark is the legend of a catastrophe. The impact of the great flood apart, the only species to make it into postdiluvian times were those floating on a wooden raft in an endless sea. Australia was one such raft.

Introducing the magnificently attractive (and doesn’t he know it?) Satin Bowerbird

The great avian show-off of the eastern and south-eastern coast of Australia is the Satin Bowerbird, whose only rival in plumose splendour may well be Dame Edna Everage.