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If you have ever needed to translate an audio file you may not have realised just how much money you can save with an audio translation service. An audio translation service may be part and parcel of the options provided by your usual translation services provider in Australia – just ask and compare the cost savings with a translation service provider that ... View More

Knowing the culture as well as the language of your intended customers is an important key to making sure advertising translation hits the mark. If your business has an international market, use these hot advertising translation tips for effective advertising translation to make sure your advertising copy as well as press releases reach who you want them to reach.

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Like most countries, Australia has a tourist office, whose job it is to publicize what a great place it is to visit. One of their most popular features is their photo collection, much of which has been contributed by amateur photographers. Showing how proud Australians are of their country, about a fifth of the board’s Facebook followers are actually Australians who submit pictures of their area and act as local experts, answering questions from ... View More

Australia is a great place for photographers, particularly wildlife photographers. People who are keen on getting top-quality pictures of birds and animals going about their business can become very creative about how they go about getting them. Some photographers have started using hidden cameras or mobile ones fixed to remote-control vehicles of all descriptions.

Recently, however, rangers in Western Australia inadvertently captured the country from a whole new perspective – that of a flying ... View More

Australia’s flying doctors are known worldwide, but none of them have quite the same level of celebrity as the famous Dr Who, who was recently claimed as an “Australian institution”. The classic theme tune was originally composed by Australian Ron Grainer and going by the evidence of the 50th anniversary simulcast, he has no shortage of admirers down under. One of them is Australian MP George Christensen who moved ... View More

While attempts to scale Sydney’s famous harbour bridge may be more noticeable, the work of a Scottish team may help to preserve Australia’s heritage for generations to come. Even though the opera house is a relatively new addition to Sydney’s skyline (building started in 1958 and it was officially opened in 1973), it’s now hard to imagine the city without it. To ensure that the residents of Sydney (and its many visitors) never have ... View More

In a country renowned for its unique wildlife, it takes something special to get people excited, but the recent discovery of an ancient tooth has done exactly that. The reason for this is that it points to the existence of a creature nicknames “Platypus-zilla”. More formally named Obdurodon tharalkooschild, it is literally a giant ancestor of today’s cute platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). For giant read over a metre long. Scientists make decisions on how types ... View More

Many visitors to Australia will want to take in the country’s iconic attractions, from the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge, to the wineries and the outback. Some visitors, however, will be looking for something a little out of the ordinary and Halloween is either the best or the worst time to visit some of Australia’s more haunting attractions.

In Sydney, the old Quarantine Reserve is now open to the public and even though the animal ... View More

Australia has some truly unique wild environments and one of the most unique of all is the floating forest in Homebush Bay. The name of Homebush has been claimed to be an abbreviation of Home in the Bush, although it’s location on the western side of Sydney is hardly the outback. It wa s created by Englishman D’Arcy Wentworth so its possible that the name refers to Homebush ... View More

That was the question facing the new Federation of Australia as it began to carve out an identity for itself as an independent country. Even though Australia had become self-governing, it still acknowledged the British monarch as head of State, although at the time there were plenty who were calling this fact into question.

When Australia’s first stamp was commissioned it featured a portrait of King George V, but the appointment of a new ... View More