A woman is tossed ashore, bedraggled and alone. She is believed to be a survivor of a shipwreck, possibly from the Britannia ...

The mayor of Yarra City says the British explorer’s granite-bronze statue won’t be replaced, fearing more damage.

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many foodstuffs that do not appear in ...

Commonwealth of Australia 1937, Aboriginal welfare ... Vaughan, M 1991, Curing their ills: colonial power and African illness, Polity Press, Cambridge. Watson, C 2003, Piercing the ground Balgo ...

A Melbourne council has decided not to repair a vandalized monument to British explorer James Cook, focusing on economic ...

Australia has a fear of abandonment and has been described as an anxious nation. What drives this fear and anxiety? In short: ...

The history and colonisation of Australia and its Indigenous peoples is, more often than not, told through a colonial lens, in books, art, and documents compiled and completed by non-Indigenous ...

Meanwhile, the bidding tussle for wealth group and owner of the MLC brand, Insignia, is in its final furlong. Another storied ...

Hamish McDonald’s Melanesia shatters Australia’s complacent view of the South Pacific as static and remote. With journalistic ...

Rather, it is for Australians to understand that across the relatively short history of colonial Australia there has been a dramatic impact on the lives of Aboriginal Australians and that impact ...

The legend of the “white woman of Gippsland” became one of the most enduring myths of colonial Australia. Though never verified, it was used to justify violent “rescue missions” and brutal ...