Tag: Australian history
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...