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Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

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Lib” Age 95 passed away peacefully on Saturday July 5, 2025. A longtime resident of Hingham, Lib was born and raised in ...

Australian military history is still unsure how to represent the frontier wars. Uprising contests most histories, describing ...

Amid a debate surrounding the Black Lives Matter protests in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the colony of NSW was founded on the basis there would be no slavery. RMIT ABC Fact ...

Is Australian English different from English? This article explores how Aussie slang and idioms reflect national identity and challenge traditional ideas of what counts as “English”.

The book, Australia: A History – From Convict Colony to Great Democracy, has a foreword by esteemed historian Geoffrey Blainey and will be published by HarperCollins in October.

New Zealand has halted funding to the Cook Islands over what it considers the small Pacific nation's deepening ties with China.

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In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...