A metal detectorist has unearthed "the find of a lifetime" hidden under a rotting log and three feet of dirt. Luke Phillips, who runs the popular YouTube channel Dig It Detecting, was out hunting ...

Stretching from Ballarat to Bendigo, the world’s most extensive and best-surviving gold rush-era landscapes were earlier this ...

Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told ... First Nations people in the gold-mining town, Ballarat, in Victoria’s west.

By the time the gold rush hit, First Nations peoples living in Ballarat were almost exterminated ... The story of Australia's journey to Federation is often told as one of growing rights and ...

Western Australia. These sites draw thousands of music lovers each year. Now an art gallery in the regional Victorian city of Ballarat is hoping it has struck gold with a new exhibition centred ...

Australia has not escaped the threat of increased tariffs on its exports to the U.S. but its gold mining industry is revelling in commodity market uncertainty.

"It probably is an unprecedented gold boom." Australia has one of the largest underground gold reserves in the world. Australia's "gold capital" celebrates the metal hitting $5,000 an ounce for ...

Ballarat is well known for its gold rush history and colonial-era heritage buildings ... And creativity is everywhere you look in this Unesco City of Crafts and Folk Art, from Australia’s oldest ...

From the middle of the 19th Century, Highlanders suffering from the impact of the potato famine were channelled towards Australia by the government. At the same time, a gold rush was drawing ...