Dr Una McIlvenna

Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Against erasure

Using witness accounts and smuggled information, researchers and technicians have created a 3D digital model of the infamous but dismantled Manus Island Detention Centre

Arts & Culture

What today’s news has in common with early execution ballads

Violence, corruption and murder dominate our modern headlines, but little has changed since execution ballads were sung in sixteenth-century Europe

Arts & Culture

Why fake news is anything but new

News has been falsified for as long as it’s been sold and can be traced as far back as the concept of news itself