Without coins or British currency, Phillip managed the fledgling colony with a bunch of IOUs.
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What right did settler society have to intervene in Aboriginal life? The humanitarian tradition has no adequate answers, says Barry Corr.
A self-described ‘platypoditudinarian’, Burrell figured out how to keep these animals in captivity – which allowed them to be studied.
Many former convicts changed their names and hid their past. But over the last 50 years, Australians have increasingly discovered – and embraced – convict relatives.
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
University campuses reflect the layers of architectural and landscape styles that have shaped our cities and suburbs.
New books by George Megalogenis and Paul Strangio consider 21st century Australia: a time of rapid social change with many politicians stuck ‘in a white-bloke past’.
Alice Duncan-Kemp’s books drew on a childhood in intimate contact with Mithaka people. Historian Tom Griffiths’ book, Alice’s dreaming, reminds us of her work.
Ruth Park’s classic asks us to inhabit the past as a real place – just as 14-year-old Abigail does, when she’s transported from 1980 to 1873, in Sydney’s The Rocks.
The Twilight of Exceptionalism is a story of problems unsolved and potential unfulfilled.
Chinese Australian actor Christopher Chung takes on a lead romantic role in the new Netflix adaptation of My Brilliant Career.
In Australia’s first census in 1911, only 0.4% of us said we had ‘no religion’. Now, ‘no religion’ is Australia’s biggest religious affiliation.
The census gives you the option to preserve your records, to be released after 99 years. We should all consent.
Oodgeroo’s debut collection We Are Going was the first ever book of poetry published by an Aboriginal person.
Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.
New mathematical modelling shows the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region may have spread thousands of kilometres and lasted decades.
Conversely, older Australians report less interest in Indigenous histories but know more about them.
Musquito’s life and death can be read through the lens of a history of invasion and resistance. Or of the difficulties of being placed between two worlds.
The annual event is an opportunity to honour one of the world’s oldest continuing cultures, but its origins are in Australia’s first civil rights movements.
The late July conference will be a tightly stage-managed affair, particularly when it comes to discussions about AUKUS and Palestine.
Top contributors
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement, La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
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Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University. Deputy Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Monash University
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Professor Emeritus of Media and Culture, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Professorial Fellow in History, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Tasmania