Mapping
Health & Medicine
Analysis
Floods hit the disadvantaged hardest and drive them deeper into poverty
Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery
Politics & Society
The stories hidden in maps
Maps tell stories, help discovery, provoke discussion and can change the way we understand our world. Welcome to Map of the Month
Health & Medicine
We aren’t all equal when it comes to climate vulnerability
A new index measures the social vulnerability of communities in the face of climate change in Australia – and finds inequalities across the country
Arts & Culture
Working to preserve cultural tradition through technology
Ngarluma man Andrew Dowding’s research fuses education, innovation and heritage in digital mapping to empower Indigenous Australians
Politics & Society
Mapping back to a lost childhood
A new interactive online map of Australian care homes is helping those who grew up in care track down the institutions they stayed in, and their records
Sciences & Technology
Go Figure
Why do some people believe the Earth is flat?
Although scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are some people around who still think our planet is flat... and social media plays a role
Arts & Culture
Restoring one of the world’s rarest maps
Over 350 years ago, Dutch traders produced the first large-scale map of Australia, now painstakingly restored
Sciences & Technology
Crunching the numbers for the common good
How big data is informing some of the big decisions about our country’s future