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In the history and folklore of Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the 'Seven Dwarfs' has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet ...
When author and historian Nick Brodie traced his own family tree, he began to see the pattern of European settlement in Australia. As he learnt ...
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Australia explores Australia's history from ancient times through to Federation in 1901. It begins with an archaeological ...
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Australia covers the period 1901 to the present day. It begins with the first day of the twentieth ...
'I did not look for skeletons in my family's cupboard, but once the cupboard was open, they simply fell out.'
A widow and her ...
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the ...
'Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News
Two inquests, four trials ...
POWER FOR THE PEOPLE tells the story of electricity in Sydney and Australia, and how it has influenced the development of our cities, and shaped ...
In the early 1970s, two titans of Australian and American politics-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and President Richard Nixon-clashed over the end of the Vietnam war ...
