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Learning how birds communicate could help us to better understand the health of our natural ecosyst
Journalist Gareth Gore investigates the finances and political influence of the conservative Cathol
Alfred Dreyfus was an officer in the French Army when he was arrested 130 years ago for treason, co
Journalist Evan Rail investigates the lucrative market for vintage "pre ban" bottles of absinthe, f
In 1788 there were at least fifteen convicts of African descent on board the First Fleet, and hundr
From requesting cross bows to fight invaders in Norfolk, to a southern Italian cosmetic recipe for
Madrid, the Spanish capital in the centre of the country, has long lived under the shadow of coasta
‘To do a Houdini’ is still used to describe remarkable feats of escapes, yet the great escapologist
The passport - if you can get one - gives freedom, but it also means state surveillance. This is on
Islands are the location of two extremes: they hold the greatest concentration on earth of both bio
Author Henry Savery is credited with being Australia's first novelist, for his work 'Quintus Servin
The largest known population of the Australian night parrot was recently discovered in the Great Sa
Simon Armitage was a sleepy ten-year old kid in West Yorkshire when he was awakened by poetry.
With changing the name of Australia's highest peak still undecided, Mount Kosciuszko remains named
A war historian accompanies a group on a pilgrimage to the Indonesian island of Ambon, where hundre
It seems that people either love or hate the humble anchovy. But it has been flavouring our food fo
80 years ago, an exciting new poet by the name of Ern Malley burst onto the Australian literary sce
In the early years of AIDS, men and women with the HIV virus were widely seen as untouchables. The
In 1831 British colonists offered the Tasmanian Aboriginal people protection and freedom if they ag
The small Central American country of Guatemala has the dubious record of sending nearly as many ba
