Javier Leon received funding from The Australian Research Council and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. He is affiliated with Surfrider Foundation Australia.

Don’t get us wrong, we enjoy a bells-and-whistles, no-expense-spared beach club day as much as the next sun seeker (a private cabana might just be our natural habit), but we can never forget that the ...

Feeling the breeze in your hair is only one golf cart rental away on this low-key barrier island, one of six beaches that constitute the Brunswick Islands. Its south-facing shores offer prime views of ...

A new regulation has been introduced after there were ‘numerous complaints from people who felt harassed’ – here’s what it actually entails Have you heard of freikörperkultur? It’s ...

But what's clear for all to see is that beaches up and down the east coast have been battered by the weather event not seen so far south in over 50 years. One freak 17-metre wave was recorded near ...