Rare surviving 17th-Century wall map of Australia discovered in Italian home. A RARE map of Australia before its discovery by Captain Cook is reshaping what we know about our early discovery.

The map is the same map as a rare 17th-Century wall map of Australia that survived for more than 350 years in a private home in Italy. The map is believed to have remained since the late 19th-Century.

World; Australia’s Wildfires Are So Hot, They’re Generating Thunder and Lightning About 130 fires continue to burn across New South Wales state, with 31 more in neighboring Victoria ...

A video of a map depicting Earth’s continents surrounded by an Antarctic “ice wall” is a creative interpretation from an online art forum. Some posts on social media have shared it with ...

Australia’s pension funds are rapidly boosting their allocations to the heavyweights of US finance as rivalry heats up for access to the country’s A$4.1 trillion ($2.7 trillion) retirement pot.

It’s a fantastic item to have and there are no examples like it in Australia.” Martin also has some more modest cartographic acquisitions in his sights. “The early classroom wall maps of Australia and ...

Meanwhile, Australia’s retail investors have also poured a record $5 billion into Wall Street-focused exchange-traded funds last year, leaving them highly exposed to any disappointment in Mr ...

Gold producers in Western Australia have banded together to resist any increase in royalties on sales of the precious metal, fearing a further blow to an industry already battered by falling ...

The large wall map – which includes Australia and outlying islands – was found in a private residence in central Italy, where it has been kept since at least the late 19th century. It is the first to ...

CommSec’s Tom Piotrowski claims the Wall Street featured declines overnight amid concerns that the American economy could plunge into recession.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek tells a G20 meeting that Australia hopes to create its own "Green Wall Street", where businesses from around the world can come to invest in environmental action.