Australian Fashion Laureate 2020 awards trade gloss for grit in challenging year

Old categories dropped in favour of new honours commending sustainability and social enterprise, to highlight ‘industry’s resilience in the face of crisis’

Which Australian Horse Races Offer the Most Prize Money?

Australia plays host to some of the richest horse races on the planet. It’s such a popular sport that everyone seems to want to get involved. The prize money on offer in many Australian races leads to more and more people either wanting to enter the industry as jockeys and trainers or buy shares in … Read more

Museum of underwater art to open on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Submerged sculptures and others that appear at low tide to be installed at several Queensland sites, as part of a project that also aims to rehabilitate sections of the reef

The top 10 shows from Australian fashion week – in pictures

Sophisticated swimwear, relaxed tailoring and a sprinkling of Australiana – Australian fashion week reveals what you’ll be wearing next summer

Beyond the runway: six Australian fashion labels doing things differently

Fashion’s business model is neither sustainable nor ethical in a world of depleted resources. So designers are thinking again

From the Great Barrier Reef to Rainbow Beach: 10 things to see and do in Queensland, Australia

The dunes at Fraser Island, the whales off Hervey Bay, the Great Barrier Reef itself … Queensland is home to a whole host of Australian icons, and that’s just scratching the surface