
"Australian history is almost always picturesque; indeed, it is also so curious and strange, that it is itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer and so it pushes the other novelties into second and third place. It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies; and all of a fresh new sort, no mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises and adventures, the incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened." ( Mark Twain, 1897 ) |
Aborigines and Colonists |
Convicts and their legacy |
Rebellion |
Post Convicts |
Aborigines and colonists
No playing cowboys |
Convict life
A life of floggings, regrets, and more floggings |
Eureka
Massacre
The first diggers |
Federation
One nation but not united |
History Wars
What is contestable history? |
Larrikin Convicts
Breaking rules to change society |
John Ceasare
The pioneer bushranger |
White Australia Policy
From first fleet to dragon boat |
White Man Black Woman
Rape or love? |
Convict crimes
Fishing, hunting, or looking
suspicious... |
Our Ned Kelly
The story of the aggrieved |
Gallipoli
Baptism of fire or well of tears? |
Myall Creek Massacre
Why psychopaths lead? |
Female Convicts
Women and a reverend |
Matthew Brady
A new moral code |
The Depression
Australia's Greek moment |
Jimmy Governor
An Aboriginal Ned Kelly?
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Escapes
Liberty or death |
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The Cold War
Transnational identites |
Pelmuwuy
Justice man or resistance leader? |
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European Refugees
New Australians building the Snowy Hydro |
Mary Anne Bugg
The female bushranger |
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Vietnamese Refugees
Not "new Australians" now multi-cultural. |
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