HISTORY

The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new ve...

  Millions of Australians who will vote in the upcoming referendum have little knowledge of the history of our relations with the traditional owne...

Thirty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been devastated by Cyclone Tracy. Only hours before, the tow...

The history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells...

The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in the cracking air when there is an electrical storm and ...

The Palmerston Dingo Glee Club was one of the earliest musical groups in the Northern Territory. In this book, Paolo Fabris and Steven Farram explo...

In 1829 Captain Fremantle formally laid Great Britain’s claim to all of New Holland outside the bounds of New South Wales and to garrison a vast co...