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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 ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
