Lifestyle

The world is a beautiful and bizarrely complex place. We in Australia are fortunate in being a biodiversity hotspot for a large number of highly specialised creatures found nowhere else on the globe - including the ones that can sometimes give us bad dreams.

If you’ve ever travelled across India and had a taste of the wide variety of dishes to be found across the land, you’ll know what’s on offer to us further south is a pale imitation of the original.

Most people would be likely to accept that birds play, just for the fun of it. I suspect everyone has seen Galahs hanging upside down from branches and power lines, there are records of Galahs taking turns to walk over each other, and plenty of play fighting goes on.

Strzelecki: The forgotten explorer who helped shape Gippsland

After 20 years of being a potter, Penny Metter celebrated last spring the 20th anniversary of her pottery studio.