That is because for much of Australia’s early history, the country was governed as a penal colony for British convicts, who were transported to the far side of the world to lay the foundations of the ...

Anna Clark could have titled her book “Remaking Australian History”, for that is its narrative arc. She celebrates a change in the stories Australians can tell of their nation: from a heroic tale of ...

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Even after decades of history wars, Australians still have a keen appetite for Australian history. According to recent ...

In July, a new date was published that pushed the opening chapters of Australian history back to 65,000 years ago. It is the latest development in a time revolution that has gripped the nation over ...

Craig A. Smith, the editor of Sinophone Australia, has managed to bring together a team of such historians. Contributors to the volume have worked through Chinese-­language newspapers, letters, travel ...

Australia has one of the longest histories of continuous human occupation outside Africa. But who exactly were the first people to settle there? Such a question has obvious political implications and ...

To date, only three Aboriginal Australian whole genome sequences have been described—one deriving from a historical tuft of hair from Australia’s Western Desert 8 and two others from cell lines with ...