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During the late eighteenth century, the newly invented 'English' piano was not only a symbol of cultivation and modernity, but also reinforced music as lifes ...
The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games have become known as the 'friendly games', but East-West rivalry ensured that they were anything but friendly. From the bloody ...
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 ...
Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to ...
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the prosecutor who conducted it.
In 1838, eleven convicts ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
