Cuban Crocodile. Image by Zanbog, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The vast, sunburnt expanse of the Australian Outback stands as one of the last enduring frontiers of nature’s wild beauty.

The Outback is a land of emptiness. This semi-arid area in the heart of Australia comprises more than 70 per cent of the country's territory, but is home to just 5 per cent of its population.

When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Australian Eastern time.

Australian Gridded Climate Data (AGCD) is the Bureau of Meteorology's official dataset for monthly gridded rainfall analysis. AGCD combines available rainfall data, with state-of-the-art statistical ...

Note that the maps are updated at regular intervals during the day. The maps are used as guidance for the Bureau's official forecasts. The Bureau's forecasters all around Australia use these maps ...

Exclusive electorate-level data shows how the housing crisis is playing out among voters around the country, and what it means for the election and the future. The housing crisis has dominated the ...

A bus service to Broken Hill has proved life changing for some residents in the remote opal mining town of White Cliffs. Every fortnight the bus makes the six-hour round trip in a day ...

It was 1997, and the opening of Star City, Sydney’s first casino, a complex described by The Age as “Las Vegas meets Miami with dollops of the Australian outback, the Great Barrier Reef ...

Grey is a vast electorate, covering 908,595 sq.km, or 92.3% of South Australia, an area larger than New South Wales. It includes the agricultural districts of the Eyre Peninsula and the fishing ...