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Researchers want help to locate and protect elusive platypus populations TueTuesday 16 updated TueTuesday 16 Loading Print text only Cancel The platypus may well be "elusive with few relations and fewer friends" as the famous Banjo Paterson poem suggests, but some current-day platypus devotees are encouraging people to seek them out. Key points: Scientists are encouraging people to record platypus sightings to help them protect the population The best time to spot a platypus is early morning or in the evening The well-known monotreme is categorised as vulnerable in Victoria, endangered in Sou...

The worker, believed to be in his 40s, was at a site in the NSW Southern Highlands on Thursday morning when he fell into a hole on Redhills Road in Fitzroy Falls.

Australia's 10 most spectacular waterfalls SHARE Photo: Alamy Dangar Falls, Dorrigo NSW See Also Found along the enticingly named Waterfall Way are these ethereal falls. The 30m, mist shrouded Dangar Falls spills over basalt cliffs into a pool enclosed by mossy boulders. There's an elevated viewing platform or you can reach the falls via a walking trail. See visitnsw.com Fitzroy Falls (NSW) Plummeting dramatically into the untouched bushland of Morton National Park, Fitzroy Falls is one of NSW's grandest. Stop first at the Fitzroy Falls Visitor Centre to learn about the local wildlife an...

DEVIL OF A TIME Hobart doesn't like tourists. We flew into Hobart on Sunday, December 27 for eight days. The next day, we went to the tourist information centre. Closed. It stayed closed all week. Tourists were not welcome. We found out about Hobart attractions on the "hop on hop off" bus. Fortunately, our hotel guided us to a day tour to Port Arthur. Our second, "not welcome" was a café we went to for breakfast. An enquiry, "are you open Saturday?" was answered with a blistering snarl, "I have to have a day off sometime." We did not return there.