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We all love the falcons. We've been watching their every move for nearly 3 months. They fill us with wonder and admiration; they make us...

Dog guardians deserve better than this TV show about quick-fix solutions to dog problem behaviours

This year's is the most controversial duck season in living memory

Edna's trick title video: https://youtu.be/PjhCC0v-sJ8 Learning tricks with my guinea pigs was a game-changer. Initially, when I tried to...

It’s a Friday and I’m driving along Kings Way. The traffic is heavy but I'm feeling upbeat. Soon I’ll get to Flemington and the ballet...

In a video on YouTube (above), a white terrier rears up. On either side of it, two men pull on leashes, the dog taut and trapped between...

It's 7.15AM and the sky is beginning to lighten. On a north-central Victorian wetland, the first gunshots explode. It's five minutes...

Jack and I came from similar backgrounds. We both grew up in Ashkenazi (Eastern European), semi-secular Jewish homes in middle-class Kew....

Two months ago, I began volunteering at a large shelter in outer-suburban Melbourne that houses cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and farm...

Opinion piece published by The Guardian during its two-week promotion of birds and birdwatching for the Birdlife Australia "Aussie...

The birds hatched on a ledge atop a Melbourne office block. When one of them needed to be saved, the job fell to me In Melbourne we’re...

Even in the midst of her dementia, Timmy was bonded to me

This piece - about my complicated relationship with a difficult instrument - was first published 12 years ago. Today, I still wouldn't...

Of all the guilty pleasures on the internet, few are as absorbing as the one being broadcast from Melbourne’s CBD. There’s love, death,...