Parliament never intended Australia’s military history to begin in 1901 — so why should legislation be used to exclude the ...

Climate change is making wildfires more dangerous but heat alone does not decide how a landscape burns. Fuel, vegetation and ...

Surveying the Wild Abyss, by Aboriginal historian Barry Corr, is a history of colonial invasion of the Nepean–Hawkesbury ...

Sri Lanka shares deep cultural, religious and historical ties with India, yet it emerged from British rule as a separate ...

When Christopher Columbus first came ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he made first contact with what was, to him, an unfamiliar world. While his journey took place on ships rather than spacecraft, ...

A 1,000-year palaeoecological record shows that colonial disruption of Gunaikurnai cultural burning transformed open ...

There is a bitter irony here that The Economist's editors might have noticed had they looked at their own country's history.

De Gaulle’s story is intertwined with that of Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle (played by Florian Lesieur), a young French ...

Highly flammable eucalypt forests now cover much of southeastern Australia. The scale and lasting impact of the 2019–2020 Black Summer fires, which burned more than 24 million hectares, demonstrate ...

A Western Australian high school is the latest to scrap its “colonial” sport houses and replace it with names and icons ...

Unless a new generation takes up the trade, the craft will be lost to time, and the buildings with it.

Content warning: This article discusses mass death, epidemics, frontier violence, and the structural violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. More than two million ...