He was a decent man. That’s why I am so angry at the unspeakable bastards who were plotting his defeat at the time of his death. Don Chipp, Navy minister Holt’s government
Josh travels to Australia trailing recent sightings of a bigfoot-like creature lurking in the blue mountains. Destination Truth s1e7, Skyfy 2007
A creature they call the Yowie. ibid.
We can’t say for sure what exactly we saw in the darkness that night. ibid.
The crew searches for a living dinosaur running rampant in the outback of Australia. Destination Truth s2e9
Off the east coast of Australia up to two hundred kilometres off shore a line of surf rises out of the open ocean. Beneath the surface creating these breaking waves is the most magical marine environment on Earth. Monty Halls, Great Barrier Reef I, BBC 2012
The Great Barrier Reef: stretching for over two thousand kilometres off the tropical coast of Australia it is quite simply the largest living structure on the planet. ibid.
Here there is more life than almost anywhere else on Earth. ibid.
Stories of the Great Flood are still passed down in Aboriginal culture. ibid.
Six hundred islands that dot the lagoon. ibid.
Whole colonies go to war with each other. ibid.
The largest coral reef on our planet. It’s one of the seven natural recognised wonders of the natural world. Monty Halls, Great Barrier Reef II
The Ray’s special skill is to find living things under the sand. ibid.
A stingray’s worst nightmare – a great hammerhead. ibid.
Sea cucumbers are repulsive to most predators, so the pearl-fish is safe inside. ibid.
The saltwater crocodile ... is the world’s largest reptile. ibid.
All of this food makes the mangrove a great place for fish. ibid.
The Mantis shrimp ... The most complex visual system known to science. ibid.
The cassowary – the flightless bird that’s almost as tall as a person. ibid.
A network of very different habitats. It means there’s a complexity of life here on a scale found almost nowhere else in the world. And it doesn’t exist in isolation. Monty Halls, Great Barrier Reef III: The Reef and Beyond
Home to some of the greatest wildlife spectacles on Earth. ibid.
This green turtle is a summer visitor. ibid.
A baby nautilus – the first time one has been filmed in the wild. ibid.
A cyclone can be over five hundred kilometres across. ibid.
They can survive in this bleached state for several weeks ... If the warm water persists, the coral dies. ibid.
Australia: a country the size of a continent. This is a vast land of extraordinary wildlife. Rich booming country on the edge of Asia. It's not just cricket and kangaroos. Australia with Simon Reeve I, BBC 2013
Hundreds of thousands of species here exist nowhere else on Earth. ibid.
About three-quarters of a million camels roaming free in Australia. ibid.
South Australia is the driest state in the whole country. ibid.
Australia has changed the way the world drinks wine. ibid.
The Indian/Pacific Railway runs all the way across Australia from coast to coast. ibid.
One of thousands of national parks and reserves. Australia with Simon Reeve II
The Northern Territory is six times the size of the UK. ibid.
Box jellyfish: the most venomous creature on planet Earth. ibid.
After white settlers arrived in Australia the indigenous people suffered brutal treatment. ibid.
The sheer diversity of the Reef is jaw-dropping ... The Great Barrier Reef is in serious trouble. ibid.
Australia’s resource boom shows little sign of slowing down. ibid.
The Gold Coast: it’s like an Australian Las Vegas. Australia with Simon Reeve III
Australians are among the largest users of illegal drugs in the world. ibid.
There are huge bushfires in this area as well. ibid.
One of the biggest exporters of coal in the world. ibid.
More than 10% of Australians are of Asian origin. ibid.
Not only was Australia linked to Antarctica but also to Africa, India and South America. Rise of the Continents II: Australia, BBC 2013
Australia was green and lush for over three hundred million years. ibid.
Eucalyptus – almost 80% of the forest in Australia. ibid.
How do three experienced sailors vanish into thin air, leaving their boat to drift aimlessly out at sea? The Unexplained Files, Discovery 2013
160 kilometres off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the crew of a surveillance aircraft made a strange discovery. ibid.
There was no reported storm at sea. ibid.
A long list of ghost ships found at sea. ibid.
A place of golden beaches and bodies. Barbecues and bikinis. Endless empty land. Sydney Harbour. But art and culture? Edmund Capon, The Art of Australia I: Strangers in a Strange Land, BBC 2013
Australian art reflects the development of a unique and incredibly diverse culture. ibid.
One in four Australians are born overseas. ibid.
Glover painted the original inhabitants in many of his landscapes ... A fantasy, there were no Aboriginal settlers on his land. ibid.
Romanticism ... Von Guerard has an unerring eye for the details of the natural world. ibid.
The spiritual home and nerve centre of Australian impressionism was here in Heidelberg on the outskirts of Melbourne ... They became known as the Heidelberg School. ibid.
The 9x5 Exhibition: in 1889 these rough and ready pictures were exhibited on the first floor of Buxton’s rooms in the heart of Melbourne. It was the first time in Australian art that a group of artists had banded together. ibid.
One of the great icons of Australian art – Tom Roberts’ Shearing the Rams. ibid.
Lambert: The Landing at Gallipoli ... ‘the scrambling crawling khaki figures’. Edmund Capon, The Art of Australia II: Coming of Age
Grace Cossington Smith was something of a radical innovator. ibid.
Charles Mears’ Beach Pattern has a photographic quality ... it’s an impressive but strange, almost surreal painting. ibid.
Bergner painted the most challenging picture from this era – Aborigines in Fitzroy. ibid.
Tucker was stationed at a local military hospital. ibid.
Boyd instils the human experience with an almost mythic dimension. ibid.
Modern art in Australia had come of age. ibid.
The revolutionary impact of the abstract. ibid.
Its haunting landscapes. Its ever-present dangers. Its dramatic and controversial history. And of course its great beauty. Edmund Capon, The Art of Australia III: Beyond Australia
Whiteley found abstraction limiting and went on to create erotic lyrical style ... The bad boy of Australian art. ibid.
Aboriginal art was internationally fashionable. The corporate world was quick to take advantage. ibid.
Dad, there’s someone in your bed. Burning Man 2011 starring Matthew Goode & Bojana Novakovic & Rachel Griffiths & Kate Beahan & Essie Davis & Kerry Fox & Anthony Hayes & Jack Heanly & Gia Carides & Marta Dusseldorp & Robyn Malcolm et al, director Jonathan Teplitzky, son