In 1942, crisis forced Australia to rethink a dangerous strategic dependence. Today, reliance on imported fuel creates ...

One of our viewers’ favourite programs of 2019, Australia in Colour returns for a second season, revealing new chapters from our nation’s history shown in colour for the very first time. The newly ...

As a symbolic document, a national history curriculum needs to accurately represent the nation’s religious past. (Lincoln Beddoe / iStock / Getty Images) The reality of national curriculum writing is ...

Shortly before Alan Tudge resigned as education minister late last year, he claimed that proposed changes to the national history curriculum were a “negative view of our history” that could lead to ...

The biggest rock art study in Australian history may shed light on when Indigenous Australians first arrived. AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST EVER rock art dating study could help determine when Aboriginal people ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Australia has a sandcastle culture, according to Jim Davidson, one-time editor of Meanjin. His point ...

Foreign filmmakers have long been fascinated by Australia, using it as a backdrop for everything from meat-pie westerns to ...

Few subjects excite such passions as the teaching of history, despite it occupying a small place in the school curriculum, and Australian history an even smaller place. Proposed changes to the ...

Australia’s history of economic reform is not a glorious one. Our federation was cobbled together after the Left opposed it because they wanted to protect state-sponsored industry at a state level. It ...