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Sunday essay: hidden in plain sight — Australian queer men and women before gay liberation

 A mug shot of Neville McQuade (aged 18) and Lewis Stanley Keith (aged 19), taken at North Sydney Police Station in June 1942. Sydney...

From lurid orange sauces to refined, regional flavours: how politics helped shape Chinese food in Australia

  A Chinese community dinner in Sydney, some time in the 1930s. City of Sydney Archives The first whiffs of Chinese cooking in mid-19th century...

Sunday essay: why Rosaleen Norton, ‘the witch of Kings Cross’, was a groundbreaking bohemian

 Rosaleen Norton works in crayon in a converted stable in Kings Cross in Sydney, 1946. News Ltd/Black Jelly Films Rosaleen Norton, or “the witch of...

From curried wombat to rendang and doro wat: a brief history of curry in Australia

 Picture: Andy Hay/Unsplash Curry occupies a grey area in Australia: sometimes exotic and other, sometimes ordinary, often a bit of both. Advertised in Australia as early as 1813,...

Sunday essay: the singlet — a short history of an Australian icon

‘Shearing sheep, Barcaldine District’, 1948. Queensland State Archives, Item ID ITM1154347 There’s no denying the popularity of the singlet. The Chesty Bond, Australia’s best...

From ‘common scolds’ to feminist reclamation: the fraught history of women and swearing in Australia

Kath and Kim (aka Jane Turner and Gina Riley): the suburban hornbags used swearing in clever ways in their 2002-2007 TV series.  Riley Turner...

The big reveal: Jenny Hocking on what the ‘palace letters’ may tell us, finally, about The Dismissal

Picture: National Archives of Australia Forty-five years after they were written, hundreds of previously secret letters between the queen and the governor-general of Australia,...

Sunday essay: how a ‘gonzo’ press gang forged the Ned Kelly legend

Destruction of the Kelly Gang. Drawn by Thomas Carrington during the siege. State Library of Victoria Washington Post publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously declared that journalism...

Australia’s drive-ins: where you can wear slippers, crack peanuts, and knit ‘to your heart’s content’

Picture: cinematreasures.org We have seen many changes in Australian’s consumption of media during isolation. There has been an increase in television viewing; cinemas were forced to close (although some have...

Tall ship tales: oral accounts illuminate past encounters and objects, but we need to get our story straight

Two Dharawal men opposing Cook’s arrival at Kurnell.  Wikimedia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. In...
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