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

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

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France ...

Built for power, speed, and fear, the Tiger I was Germany’s most famous tank - its 88mm gun capable of piercing any Allied armor ...

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 ...

Australians, blessed by geography and good fortune, often imagine war as something that happens elsewhere –something decided ...

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

Australia has been, and continues to be, remarkably resilient. But the fragile machinery of democracy needs some long overdue ...

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.

Art has always been a provocation, but in Australia, controversy seems to cling to the canvas. From paintings that ignited ...

The Left is already criticizing Trump by saying that he came down on tariffs or he didn’t get as many soybean sales. I think ...

Jamie Melham has become the second female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup after guiding the only Australian horse - Half ...