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Bathurst Island: A Tiwi tour of an ancient culture
Diana Balham finds that artwork is one way we can learn more about the history of the Aboriginal people.

Ayers rock strip-dance appalls Aboriginals
Native Australians are calling for the deportation of a French tourist who offended their cultural sensitivities.

Woman ignores snake bite to bake cake
An Australian woman decided cake was the order of the day after mistaking a serious snake bite for a simple scratch.

Desert town baffled as fish fall from sky
A town in the northern Australian desert has been pelted in a downpour - of fish.

Endangered animals sold to hunting safari
300 animals - including some that are extinct in the wild - were sold to a Northern Territory hunting safari.

Northern Territory: The big somewhere
Greg Dixon walks... and walks... and discovers the landscape of Australia's Larapinta trail is not the empty canvas it first appears.

Northern Territory: Anything but grim
Australia's Northern Territory is a land of harsh beauty, writes Pamela Wade.

Walk with the animals
American scientist and animal lover Marc Bekoff, who visits Auckland this week, believes animals don’t just have emotions but are moral beings, just like us.

Northern Territory: Thrashing about
Pamela Wade finds five ways to court crocs in the Northern Territory.

Grieving daughter evicted after dad's death
Only 5 days after Rachel Pazos' father died, authorities in Darwin, Australia arrived at the home he had shared with his 14-year-old daughter and kicked her out.