Tag: Australian history
Crowds at dawn services have plummeted in recent years. It’s time to reinvent Anzac Day
Crowds ahead of the dawn service at Canberra’s National War Memorial in 2018. Attendance at the service fell from 120,000 in 2015 to...
Sunday essay: truth telling, Return to Uluru and reckoning with the sins of fathers
Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP
Return to Uluru is the latest book from respected historian Mark McKenna. It is one of a few history books published recently that explicitly...
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,...