Tag: Australian history
60% of Australians want to keep Australia Day on January 26, but those under 35 disagree
Image: Dean Lewins/AAP
The issue of when or whether to celebrate Australia Day seems to have become stuck in a loop of fierce debate without resolution.
There are...
New Gold Mountain review: a compelling murder mystery shines light on early Australian multiculturalism
Source: SBS
Review: New Gold Mountain, directed by Corrie Chen.
The beautifully shot and evenly paced New Gold Mountain, the new series from SBS, is...
Hidden women of history: Annie Lock was a bolshie, outspoken Australian missionary, full of contradictions
Missionary Annie Lock with Enbarda (Betsy) left, and Dolly Cumming, both children from the Alice Springs area in Central Australia. Photo taken in...
Sunday essay: Our utopia … careful what you wish for
A slide by Gordon H. Woodhouse to accompany a 1901 lecture by his father Clarence entitled ‘exploration and development of Australia’. State Library...
Sunday essay: beyond ‘statue shaming’ — grappling with Australia’s legacies of slavery
St Kitts-born Archibald Burt pictured beside sugar cane growing in his Perth garden in 1862. Burt, a former slave owner, became chief justice...
Our history up in flames? Why the crisis at the National Archives must be urgently addressed
Image: Bidgee (Wikimedia commons)/The Conversation
Imagine you are in a large building near Parliament House in Canberra filled with irreplaceable objects. Not...