The nine-week-old pup required gentle maternal encouragement before diving into the water at Taronga Zoo.
From the visual arts to a beloved musical,live music and comedy,here’s how to keep the kids busy these school holidays.
The birth of one of Australia’s rarest marine predators has injected critical genetic diversity into the zoo’s captive insurance population.
The Brethren’s new website purports to tell “the truth about our church,contribution,values and way of life”.
Woke seems to have been a pejorative term for having a social conscience,writes one correspondent.
The Mosman zoo wants to build a new “Sky Safari” to replace the original cable car,which was retired last year.
“I was such a shy child and acting was the last thing I thought I would do,” says the 27-year-old daughter of Judy Davis and Colin Friels.
Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park,just south of Sydney,last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.
In the northern suburbs,residents need to be vigilant and stop illegal tree removals,as councils cannot police illegal tree removal on their own.
It might look like an innocent postal package containing a birthday card and a can of potato chips. But inside the tube,stuffed in a sock,is a native Australian lizard.