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Chris Humfrey's Animal Instinct

Chris makes a heartbreaking discovery for Elvis the emu while checking on his final unhatched eggs.

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22:39 | Published 3 days ago
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Chris Humfrey's Animal Instinct

Chris makes a heartbreaking discovery for Elvis the emu while checking on his final unhatched eggs.

Geography
22:22 | Published 4 days ago
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Chris Humfrey's Animal Instinct

Chris cooks up an ostrich omelette prior to putting himself in the path of danger to capture a giant ostrich named Number 13, in a life-saving mission.

Geography

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6:10 | Published 1 week ago
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The Akubra hat

From the harsh outback to warzone frontlines and Olympic champion podiums, the Akubra hat has adorned Australian heads for over a century both here at home and around the world. The Akubra success lies in the efforts of hat maker Benjamin Dunkerley and his ingenious fur dressing invention. Dunkerley's partnership with Stephen Keir built the Akubra empire that continues today.

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9:56 | Published 1 week ago
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The stump-jump plough's invention

When clearing mallee stump for agricultural crop land was proving to be a challenge, Richard Smith came up with the solution to the formidable problem of how to plough such impenetrable land. The stump-jump plough is one of the inventions that enabled the development of Australia's wheat belt, from WA, across to Victoria and into NSW.

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4:52 | Published 3 weeks ago
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The pre-paid postal system

Since 1680 in Britain, and adopted in Australia just over a century later, the postal system was post-paid. That meant, the recipient paid for the letter. The system was expensive and vulnerable to fraud. James Raymond, colonial postmaster-general of NewSouth Wales, introduced the world's first pre-paid postal system selling envelopes marked with the post office's stamp for use throughout Sydney.

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Yolngu Boy

Explore the search for identity, Indigenous Australian rites of passage and the power of friendship using the 2001 film Yolngu Boy.

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