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'The changes we have made will remain - like all great Labor legislation - permanent landmarks in our history.' Gough Whitlam
The Whitlam government propelled Australia out ...
Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means
there is no comprehensive law that enshrines human rights in
Australia - even though ...
The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. This ...
In late 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops book the first steps in creating a clandestine church organisation to ...
Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia. What they find is both beautiful and disturbing- wilderness, desire, an ancient philosophy of ...
If you think you know all about Australia's heroes (and villains), think again. In AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, Ben Pobjie burrows beneath the mythology to ...
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.
Chinese 'presence' in Australia ...
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 ...
