Akubra has been run by one family for five generations and their handsome felt hats, which are made with rabbit fur, are very much a part of Australia's national identity.

A 14-year-old girl who was the face of Australia’s iconic hat company Akubra killed herself after enduring online bullying, her family said Sunday.

AS MANUFACTURERS abandon Australia in a bid to reduce costs, one of the world's last hat makers is determined to retain its place in our not-so-sunburnt country.

City folk wouldn’t dream of doing it to the soft-weight Akubra fedora, but the first thing most Australian men and women on the land do when they receive their new hat from the firm — most ...

Akubra forced to import the rabbit fur used in its iconic hats as local suppliers vanish. 130-year-old company thrived off the rabbit plague in the early 20th century ...

Sept. 12 (UPI) --A former hat owner shared video of a uniquely Australian tragedy -- a crocodile eating his Akubra after it blew off his head. The video, recorded Friday on the Adelaide River in ...

Milliner Robert Carroll, manager of Akubra’s only retail store, Strand Hatters in Sydney, says they are selling more hats than ever before. “Men are wearing hats more now,” Carroll says.

For more than a century, the Akubra hat has been a symbol of the Australian bush and rural life, but a huge shortage of domestic rabbit suppliers is forcing the iconic hat brand to turn offshore ...

The Akubra hat is an iconic Australian symbol, but the company will now source 100 per cent of its rabbit fur from Europe. (Supplied: Ann Britton) ...

Golfing legend Greg Norman has also sported an Akubra on numerous occasions. The hat designed for him, way back in 1987, was called ‘The Great White Shark’.

Akubra has been run by one family for five generations and their handsome felt hats, which are made with rabbit fur, are very much a part of Australia's national identity.