In remote Mongolia, a few men continue the dying tradition of training golden eagles to hunt. Australian photographer Palani Mohan describes his project to document what remains of this centuries-old culture.

A photo essay from Australia’s Northern Territory, where crocodiles are a lifestyle.

Ringside at Shannon O’Connell’s comeback fight, her next step towards a world title — and paying the bills.

One photographer’s rise on the photo-sharing app, Instagram.

Photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor, 29, is a Hazara asylum seeker who fled Afghanistan — with his camera.

Endangered species, a farming food bowl and an open-cut mine in the middle of it all.

Australia’s High Court this week backed Labor’s legislation to put cigarettes in plain packaging — drab olive-brown packs with large, graphic health warnings. The World Health Organisation calls plain packaging “a ...

That tail-slapping whales do? Scientists describe it as a temper tantrum. And that's only the mammals — the humans are protesting too. A story in pictures from James Price Point, where plans for a massive gas plant ...

Mike Bowers has been awarded 'Outstanding Online Photographic Essay' at the 2012 Kennedy Awards for his glimpse at Sydney's mystic Mandeans, one of the world's last Gnostic communities, originally posted April ...

A futuristic solar power station in Andalucia aspires to be the model that can provide a cheap, clean and efficient solution to electrify the world.

Photography by Chris Klees

Australia’s black gold is powering city lights far from where it begins — way, way down under. This fissure to furnace view of an industry concealed from public eye brings to life the industry fuelling Australia.

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi are celebrating the first freely elected president in Egypt's 7,000-year history.

The salt pan that is Lake Eyre, below sea level in the desert, is rarely so saturated as it has been following Australia’s recent floods. Gathering saturated and sensuous images of his own, photographer Mike Bowers ...

The new face of Australian homelessness is probably a grandmother’s. She won’t be sleeping rough but couch surfing or sleeping in her car.

A healthy food program at Baryulgil primary school has turned around the health of the students. Mike Bowers spent lunchtime with the pupils.

How do you get journalists to comprehend the complexities of a federal budget before they start telling everyone about it? You start by locking them up.

... it's best not to see them being made. That saying has been making the rounds since the 1860s, but it was true as ever in Canberra today. Still, who can help but look? TGM's Mike Bowers takes his lens to Question ...

Images from a lifetime of wondering and wandering amid the Anzacs.

Photographer Rick Stevens celebrates the silver-haired and silver-scaled veterans who’ve thrilled generations of Sydney visitors.

A small abattoir on the fringe of Australia’s outback is a window on modern rural life.

Elinor Wrobel is a collector — of “broken, used, beautiful things”. Many of her treasures were found in the Sydney Hospital morgue. You might be surprised to find out what's in Wrobel’s collection – and how hard ...

Australia hosts a celebration thousands of years old. It's known as “Feast Wednesday”  or “Fire Night” and Iranians are its adherents.  And fire is the theme.

Each performance of Opera Australia’s production of The Magic Flute begins for Kanen Breen in the wig room of The Sydney Opera House.

All the dandy pooches at Doggywood, a pet pageant and part of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, have their tricks. Sit. Stay. Fetch that man for me. Look fabulous. Urban animals indeed.

It’s been an unedifying spectacle of bloodletting in the Australian Labor Party. And the Prime Minister Julia Gillard has prevailed in a party room vote over the man she unceremoniously unseated in 2010. But has ...

Zahra and Abdalah Ahmed are refugees from Darfur who have made a new life — and a booming business — in Australia.

The 55th annual World Press Photographic awards have been announced and, unsurprisingly, the events in the Middle East and the Japanese tsunami dominate the winning images.