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 terrifying map has revealed which areas in Australia are at most risk of being in the firing line of a tsunami. Scientists and weather experts discussed the tsunami hazards for Australia in a Bureau ...

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 ...

A priceless, 353-year-old map of New Holland – on which all subsequent mapping of Australia is based – has arrived in Melbourne for restoration. A 1663 MAP of New Holland – the first-ever published ...

Learn more about the history of trading water in Australia’s three markets in this infographic. Australia boasts the world’s only large-scale system of water-rights trading, concentrated into three ...

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 ...