Australian History

Arts & Culture

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Book extract

Bushrangers in their own words

Most bushrangers are best known from semi-fictional accounts written decades after their deaths, but a new book uncovers a few that told their own stories

Arts & Culture

Walt Disney’s ‘love affair’ with Australia

A new book explores the many – often surprising – connections between Walt Disney and Australia, most of which have faded from modern memory

Health & Medicine

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Opinion

Could climate change bring malaria back to Australia?

Australia eradicated malaria back in the late 1970s, but as our climate continues to change, could the deadly disease make a return?

Politics & Society

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Opinion

‘Labor is a fair-weather friend of unionism’

With various Australian elections on the horizon, it shouldn’t be a surprise Labor governments are distancing themselves from the CFMEU. It’s happened throughout their history

Health & Medicine

Dental care and healthcare are the same thing

A new book on the history of dental health in Victoria calls for a greater focus on prevention and more government-funded dental services

Politics & Society

A new Australia Day for everyone

26 January is a divisive and illogical date to celebrate our country. An alternative date acknowledges Indigenous history while also reflecting modern Australia

Environment

Lockdown ‘field trip’ reveals whereabouts of Australian grasshoppers

Using old field notes and new technology, researchers used COVID lockdowns to retrace the steps of pioneering Australian insect surveyors, virtually

Arts & Culture

Conserving the world’s oldest processional dragon

For the last year, Grimwade Conservation Services has been conserving Loong 龍, the oldest intact Imperial processional dragon in the world

Arts & Culture

Zanuckville: Australia’s strangest suburb?

In the 1950s, the Hollywood Western came to Australia, but the cast and crew needed somewhere to stay. The South Australian government came up with ‘Zanuckville’

Arts & Culture

Bringing a living archive to life

The Living Archive challenges the idea of what an Indigenous museum collection can be and could become