Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

Australian boomerangs come in a variety of shapes and sizes. The classic symmetrical boomerang is designed to return in a ...

Sky News Australia has announced it will air a landmark exclusive documentary ‘The Dismissal: 50 Years On’, which will ...

Australian historian Lyndal Roper's Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War is the winner of the 2025 Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University.

During the 18th century, England sought out remote locations to house prisoners as a solution to its overcrowded jails. In 1788, England's First Fleet arrived in the Eora nation—now known as Sydney, ...

The “Earl Grey Scheme” saw 4,000 women sent out of overcrowded workhouses in Ireland to build colonies in Australia as ...

The world premier of the musical is a worthwhile exercise in turning a true Australian tale of a militarized overreaction to ...

The coast of western Australia is littered with shipwrecks with terrifying stories, but none may be as horrific as that of Batavia. Mutiny, murder, and slavery among its survivors lasted for months ...