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Sunday, 8 January 1978
I have decided to keep a diary during Zelman's term of office as Governor-General. I am pleased, because I forget ...
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.
In ...
They were the Australians who made American history. In the roaring days of the 1850s California gold rush, San Francisco was the most dangerous town ...
One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a ...
'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains ...
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of ...
You probably have a tin of shoe polish tucked under the laundry sink bearing the little bird logo that has been in homes around the ...
Most people think of Australia's convict past as decidedly English. Anne McMahon tells the story of the Irish prisoners roped into the British transportation ...
The inside account of Australia's national intelligence organisation as it grappled with continuing espionage from foreign agents and the rise of terrorist attacks on ...
'Life is long. When you're forty-eight, there's been a lot of stuff that's happened (laughs). It's got elements of comedy and ...
James Morrill was an eye-witness to Australia's longest war that roiled the Australian continent episodically for 140 years. Shipwrecked on the Queensland coast in ...
Driven by Marxist ideology, the Industrial Workers of the World sought to draw the Australian unions into One Big Union, but of more lasting significance ...
"Telegraph" Todd became a legend in his own lifetime for introducing Australian colonists to a new information age. But only recently has the full extent ...
Loss of human life, destruction of crops and pastures, millions of dead animals, economic retardation and denuded landscapes - all these are associated with El Nino ...
