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Far-right protests across Australia have turned violent, targeting South Asian migrants with racist rhetoric and ...
Assassin's Creed has successfully used historical fiction to take gamers back in time to iconic cities, conveying history lessons through its gameplay. Colonial Australia should be the next setting ...
The story of Australia usually begins in the late 18th century, when shiploads of imprisoned people from England began arriving as forced laborers to build the foundations of a new colony. For the ...
Western imaginings about marked ‘primitive’ bodies have a long history, yet studies of these practices have remained largely a-historical. Drawing on recent scholarship addressing the history and ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An engraved silver disc believed to be colonial Australia's first work of art was sold at auction on Tuesday for A$873,750 (almost $857,000) to an Australian museum, the ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two statues of colonial figures were vandalised overnight in the Australian city of Melbourne, ahead of a contentious national holiday on Friday marking the arrival of the British ...
A Park City local is collaborating on a TV series with plans to submit the pilot to the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. It's an ...
"This sort of vandalism really has no place in our community and we'll be working, I want to signal today, that we will be working with council to repair and reinstate the statue, the statue in St ...
It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research suggesting that dingoes were buried -- ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of aborigines are estimated to have been murdered in 500 massacres across Australia from European settlement in 1788 until the mid-20th century, researchers said on Friday ...
The Department of Home Affairs has said the recent ransomware attack earlier this month targeting the operator of the Colonial Pipeline in the United States was a "timely reminder" of why Australia's ...