Until a generation ago, 'Britishness' lay at the heart of Australian political culture. How and why did this fundamental idea lose its meaning for Australians and their political …
When Niel Black, one of the most influential settlers of the western district of Victoria, stepped onto the sand at Port Phillip Bay in 1839 and declared Melbourne to be 'almost …
In 2003 Australia conceived, financed and led a Pacific-wide intervention into Solomon Islands to prevent the collapse of that state. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon …
How, in this age of economic rationalism and a globalised world, does a voice from the billabong saying, 'You'll come a waltzing matilda with me' still matter? ""Waltzing Matilda"" …
The Rocks is Sydney's earliest surviving neighbourhood. Grace Karskens builds up a vivid picture of the lives of its earliest white inhabitants. A wealth of historical documents, …
The years 2010 to 2013 saw a remarkable period in Australian political history: Julia Gillard became Australia's first female prime minister after she successfully staged a …
Between 1990 and 1992, a group of archaeologists mapped the remains of the settlement on the Moorabool and excavated four houses there. Like the miners, they were drawn to the site …
Australia's history is sprinkled with attempts at tax reform - some successful, some not. Mixed Fortunes explores these efforts at substantive change in our tax system. Paul Tilley …
Revealing biography of the compassionate man behind the image of 'Bloody George', General George Vasey. To his troops he was 'Bloody George', a hard-bitten professional soldier, …
An outstanding account of a decade whose highlights included separation from New South Wales, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, the establishment of parliamentary government, …
