Australian History

Seventeen years after Black Saturday, Victoria's overhaul of fire management reshaped how Australia (and the world) prepare for an increasingly dangerous climate future

Handwritten records of central Victorian fires from 1875 are being digitised to preserve rare local knowledge and record how fire risk is changing over time

We now carry computers in our pockets, but in 1955, the University of Melbourne became home to the two-tonne CSIRAC computer. Our picture gallery celebrates 70 years of Australia’s first university computing department

Over the course of almost two centuries of settler fire history, a clear pattern has emerged – Victoria learns from fire

From wages and working conditions to the eight-hour day, a new book brings together some of the life stories of the people who propelled Australia’s union movement

A new book provides a timely look at the foundation myth of Gallipoli as a sacred bearer of Australian national identity, disentangling it from history, memory and forgetting

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

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

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

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