In the winter of 1858, students from Victoria’s Scotch College and Church of England Grammar School (later Melbourne Grammar) ...
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 ...
New estimates suggest Australia’s Indigenous population was much larger before European colonization and declined by roughly 93% between 1788 and 1861.
More than two million Indigenous people probably lived in Australia at the time of the British invasion in 1788, according to ...
The 1850s gold rush in Victoria brought an influx of prospectors from China, seeking their fortunes. National Museum of Australia This is the first in a series examining Australian national identity, ...
Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen trapped ...
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