Tag: Australian history

Researchers find first inhabitants probably used ‘superhighways’ to navigate and thrive in the hash environments of the early mega-continent.

The Round House in the port city of Fremantle was the first permanent public building to be constructed in the then Swan River Colony.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: January 26 marks one of the greatest expropriations in modern history, which took place at Sydney Cove. Why do so many Australians want to commemorate an act of egregious injustice?

Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years.

Angry and offended Australians lash out at Australia’s PM for saying the country was nothing more than a couple of bushes prior to colonization.

Australian leaders of all political stripes, past and present, reflect on the political legacy and legend of Gough Whitlam.

On the passing of Gough Whitlam, we remember the Australian political giant through some of his most famous quotes and memorable retorts.

Duke of Cambridge describes explorer who put ‘Australia’ on the map as a man of action, strength and determination.

Prince William will reveal the statue of Matthew Flinders who was the first to circumnavigate the great southern land and map the entire coast of Australia.

Following an online furore where Aldi were accused of racism, the supermarket chain has apologised and removed the “Australia Est 1788” T-shirt range from stores.

Australians and Poms who have family in both the UK and Western Australia are being invited to take part in a major new memories project which links the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Western Australia in Perth.

Famous explorer Matthew Flinders, the first to circumnavigate Australia, will be commemorated with a bronze statue at London’s Euston Station.

The BBC is set to travel Down Under next year to film an eight-part television drama about the foundation of the first British penal colony in Australia at the end of the 18th century.