Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen trapped ...
Anna Clark could have titled her book “Remaking Australian History”, for that is its narrative arc. She celebrates a change in the stories Australians can tell of their nation: from a heroic tale of ...
Gold has long held a special place in Australia's history, shaping the nation's economic fortunes and driving waves of ...
The history of immigration policy in Australia is full of yes-no contradictions: fear jostling with hope, exclusion with ...
A "boisterous egalitarianism" was tearing down social barriers as the diggers "enjoy[ed] a new liberty, of which they never dreamed before". One visiting British aristocrat, Lord Robert Cecil – the ...
The book and documentary were officially launched by Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of Australia with remarks by the Honourable Chris Minns, Premier of New South ...
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1894: Lawrence Hargrave lifts off in his box kite at Stanwell Park. In 1894, almost a decade before the Wright brothers celebrated the first powered flight, Australian inventor Lawrence Hargrave ...
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