Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen trapped ...

Even after decades of history wars, Australians still have a keen appetite for Australian history. According to recent ...

Gold has long held a special place in Australia's history, shaping the nation's economic fortunes and driving waves of ...

The history of immigration policy in Australia is full of yes-no contradictions: fear jostling with hope, exclusion with ...

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The book and documentary were officially launched by Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of Australia with remarks by the Honourable Chris Minns, Premier of New South ...

Account of the largest protests in Australian history, with protestors demanding an end to conscription and Australian involvement in the war in Vietnam Australian citizens offered little opposition ...

A "boisterous egalitarianism" was tearing down social barriers as the diggers "enjoy[ed] a new liberty, of which they never dreamed before". One visiting British aristocrat, Lord Robert Cecil – the ...

Rediscovering historic meteorological documents offers vital insight to our increasingly erratic modern weather patterns. FEW PEOPLE realise that snow was once a common occurrence for southern ...

To date, only three Aboriginal Australian whole genome sequences have been described—one deriving from a historical tuft of hair from Australia’s Western Desert 8 and two others from cell lines with ...