Australian Geographic

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.

Pervasive issues

AG subscriber benefits

Save our seabirds

The sorrow of shearwaters

Australian Geographic

The trouble with goats

FREE Australian GEOGRAPHIC

Skippy stone

Hobart community rallies around its rivulet platypus

Birthday for famous sanctuary

A wild year for art

Place names

Lost orchid found again

Flying high with a woof

Good bacteria for bad coral

Wetlands rescue

AG photo expo

Wild Diary

Motels are back

National Science Week 13–21 August

Events

And now for CSI Australia • The whole continent is about to be treated like a crime scene as thousands of people across the country begin searching for DNA from the nation’s animals.

A proliferation of pumice

Talking Australia • Subscribe and never miss an episode of our entertaining podcast.

A flat Earth

Nark

Transport and travel • About 10 per cent of the 47kg of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that we each produce daily comes from travel and transport. Geoff Ebbs offers advice on how to reduce these emissions to help you reach your annual 2-tonne (5.5kg/d) carbon target.

The Australian Geographic Book Club

The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition • 1889 A national Australian art movement emerges.

After flooding rains come fires • More catastrophic bushfire seasons are being predicted, despite two years of deluges along the eastern seaboard.

Sounds of Mars

Looking up

Listening with Aunty for 90 years • The ABC has been keeping Australians of all ages informed and entertained since 1932.

Lisa Blair sails into history • Australian Geographic Society news and events July • August 2022

Society sponsorship news • Some of the projects to receive Society funding in April 2022.

Your subscription is essential to the Australian Geographic Society

THE ULTIMATE OPTIMIST • Despite a devastating accident that left him in a wheelchair, this nature photographer remains one of the most positive and inspirational humans you’re likely to meet.

Power of the dog • Thousands of travellers are drawn to Gundagai every week for a photo with the fabled Dog on the Tuckerbox, one of Australia’s smallest “big things”.

Bullocky Bill

A dog’s life

Receive For the Love of Birds AND SAVE 20% • when you subscribe or renew today

High Country heroes • Devoted volunteers are keeping Australia’s alpine huts standing as havens for outdoor adventurers against harsh mountain weather.

Legacy of an alpine icon

GREATEST HUTS

Trouble in paradise • Failing fledglings in a seabird colony on a subtropical island in the South Pacific could be a sign of a growing global disaster…and it has nothing to do with climate change.

Life in the colony • Flesh-footed shearwaters arrive at LHI in their thousands from late September to early October and leave in May.

Taking the hard path • In an epic month-long adventure, Tasmania’s first ranger relay successfully crossed some of our wildest landscapes in extreme weather.

ABANDONED MINES • Australia is pockmarked with more than 80,000 disused mining sites. A major research project seeks to map them all in the hope of encouraging improved rehabilitation outcomes and clever adaptive reuses.

EDEN PROJECT ANGLESEA

MINING’S LEGACY

TRANSFORMING...