The former PM can be eloquent and erudite about Australia – but he has a very particular conception of what this nation is and how it came to be ...

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 ...

Australia’s most recent rediscovery of its Asian links, the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, has been widely canvassed. It argues that ‘the tyranny of distance is being replaced by the ...

There have been calls to change the date of Australia Day/Invasion Day since as far back as 1938. January 26 marks the day in 1788 when the First Fleet landed in Australia to establish the colony of ...

Victorian students are turning their backs on learning about the nation’s history and politics, while subjects on climate ...

A "boisterous egalitarianism" was tearing down social barriers as the diggers "enjoy[ed] a new liberty, of which they never dreamed before". One visiting British aristocrat, Lord Robert Cecil – the ...

The book and documentary were officially launched by Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC, Governor-General of Australia with remarks by the Honourable Chris Minns, Premier of New South ...