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Australia will perpetually encounter the season opposite to the one we in the northern hemisphere will encounter, so does this means that Australia will never get a white Christmas?

After the asteroid impact 65 million years ago, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage in southern seas. With host Richard Smith at the wheel, NOVA travels this walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange island it is today. Australia's many unusual creatures, like the kangaroo and the cassowary, tell a tale of isolation, change and resilience. Australia's long history has seen mountains rise and fall, seas come and go, and whole...

Australia was once part of a super-continent and its deserts were covered in forests. Once joined to Antarctica, it split off and moved northwards into warmer climes, whilst Antarctica became an icy wasteland. Australia's move forced life forms to adapt, evidenced in some of its endemic wildlife. A BBC/Science Channel co-production.

Through the story of a homeless man the connection between drug and alcohol abuse and homelessness is explored and we learn how he was eventually helped to break the cycle.

Australia's Northern Territory is home to many Aboriginal people, and Ellis Emmett meets some of its more artistic natives in the town of Alice Springs. Next he tours a 20 million-dollar interpretive center, snacks on fresh crocodile, and explores a remote crater created by the impact of a comet nearly 130 million years ago. Ellis then tours one of the few Aboriginal outback communities open to the public. He takes a walkabout in the bush with a local...

"Australia : a new history of the great southern land" is a major new account that places Australia's history fully within a global context, drawing on sources from the United States, Britain, South Africa, and Canada, as well as within Australia itself.

In this Globe Trekker video, Estelle Bingham tours Australia while flashing back to highlights of trips three other presenters, Justine Shapiro, Ian Wright and Megan McCormick, have taken around the continent. Estelle starts in Sydney with Australia's best beaches, and hang glides over breathtaking coastlines. She takes an expedition into the outback to study bush survival and makes time to explore the region's varied culinary delights, rich plant...

Covering three quarters of Australia, the Outback is one of the most rugged landscapes in the world. In this Globe Trekker video, Ian Wright journeys through Kakadu National Park, feeding crocodiles and encountering a black headed python along the way, to the Barunga Aboriginal Festival of sports and culture. He goes on a kangaroo hunt, tries his hand at bush poetry, works a cattle station, takes a hot air balloon over Alice Springs, dines on kangaroo...

Short History of Convict Australia is the first ever documentary about Australia's convict past. It visits the locations where convicts lived and worked, talks to historians and descendants of convicts and experiences the legacy of the dramatic, brutal birth of a nation.

How dinosaurs lived in Australia over 100 million years ago when it was still joined to Antarctica.