It was 15 August 1960, the feast day of the Dormition of the Theotokos. Along the banks of the Evrotas River, which had ...

The moment Rachel Perkins sits down at the Redfern eatery Bush, Burl, the restaurant dog makes a beeline for her, running excitedly and jumping onto her lap to lick her face as if she’s a long-lost ...

A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.

Before the Hamas attacks of October 7, the term genocide – literally meaning the destruction of a race – held a position as the gravest crime a state could commit. It meant Rwanda, Srebrenica and, of ...

Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other ...

Here's what we thought of the prestigious literary award's 2025 shortlist, the first with Sarah Jessica Parker as judge.

Australian historian Lyndal Roper's Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War is the winner of the 2025 Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University.

The US president has effectively wielded tariffs as a weapon to beat other countries into advantageous deals. But Beijing has ...

With some players wearing bling, Australia completed its final training session ahead of Sunday morning’s second Test with ...

Messages in a bottle written by two World War I soldiers have been discovered on Australia's coast. The Brown family found ...

He who controls the past, controls the future’ wrote George Orwell in his classic work, 1984. This is something ...