A pilot who died in an ultralight aircraft crash near Darwin on Sunday has been remembered by his son as someone who valued fun, family and adventure. "Mark Christie was many different things to many different people throughout his life: an officer, a consultant, a business owner, a public servant, an educator, a photographer, a traveller, a pilot and a …
On most nights you'll find Dr Greg Brown, notebook in hand, walking the abandoned wall at Fogg Dam, a 45-minute drive east of Darwin. Dr Brown's interest in herpetology is far from a hobby — eminent biologist and Macquarie University Professor Rick Shine calls the researcher a "freakishly good field worker". "Even though the cane toads had been in Queensland …
Amid predictions that many parts of the continent will be getting some much-needed rain this winter, Australia's Top End is experiencing its second bad wet season in a row, with some of the worst rainfalls since records began 80 years ago. Key points: Normal wet seasons provide around 1,600mm of rain, but this year it is looking to be more …