Australian History

14 Apr 2026 | New Nationals Leader Matt Canavan wants to make it harder for permanent residents to become ...

22 Mar 2026 | The "Kelly House", childhood home of infamous bushranger Ned Kelly, still stands.

10 Mar 2026 | The arrival of Britain’s HMS Anson in Western Australia highlights the historic ties, industrial ...

7 Jan 2026 | Belinda Donovan reviews historical romance thriller, 'The Butterfly Women', by Madeleine Cleary. ...

13 Dec 2025 | Madeleine Cleary’s ‘The Butterfly Women’ brings colonial Melbourne to life in a gripping ...

19 Nov 2025 | Documents reveal how Australia’s covert role in Chile’s 1973 coup fed the tensions that ...

17 Nov 2025 | Fresh scrutiny of royal interference in Whitlam’s Dismissal has renewed calls for Australia to ...

9 Nov 2025 | Fifty years ago, as a young press photographer, I photographed Gough Whitlam the day after the ...

7 Nov 2025 | Malcolm Fraser’s legacy is one of contradictions — the conservative reformer who came to power ...

6 Nov 2025 | Albo's recent meeting with Charles Windsor and avid declaration that Australia would not beco ...

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5 Nov 2025 | Albo's recent meeting with Charles Windsor and avidly declaration that Australia would not beco ...

5 Nov 2025 | The 50th anniversary of The Dismissal is an apposite moment to look again at Malcolm Fraser as the ...

31 Oct 2025 | Tony Abbott’s new book attempts to revive an outdated ‘three cheers’ narrative of White ...

23 Oct 2025 | In 1975, Australia lost more than a Prime Minister — it lost its independence. The CIA’s ...

3 Oct 2025 | Australia’s token gestures of reconciliation ring hollow while Papua New Guinea, our closest ...

30 Sep 2025 | When governments refuse to act, it has always fallen to workers and communities to halt Austral ...

26 Sep 2025 | Marking half a century since its groundbreaking first edition, Exclusion, Exploitation and Exte ...

17 Sep 2025 | Long before smartphones and streaming, a secret room in wartime Brisbane helped usher in the ...

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