Australia is an old and stable continent with not many geological risks such as major earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. At least that is what most people think. But throughout its geological history ...

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

Australia's Black Summer bushfires of 2019 and 2020 wreaked destruction across South-Eastern Australia. Images of flames crowned trees, engulfed fire trucks and people crowded on beaches and packed in ...

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 ...

Rediscovering historic meteorological documents offers vital insight to our increasingly erratic modern weather patterns. FEW PEOPLE realise that snow was once a common occurrence for southern ...

Up to 300 convicts were led by Kerry-born Philip Cunningham in a revolt on a New South Wales prison farm at Castle Hill on March 4, 1804. Philip Cunningham and his fellow Irish rebel convicts planned ...

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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 ...