Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

Lyndall Ryan´s interest in the history of Australia has grown since her early days as ... which included acknowledgment of massacres committed by European settlers in the early days of the nation. Her ...

The colonisation of Australia is an important part of the secondary History curriculum. This series introduces two early settlements of Sydney and Melbourne and discusses the impact of colonisation on ...

An exhibition shines a light on little-known moments in Australian migrant history ... a hawker, an early Sikh settler and a civil rights campaigner, was quite a well-known local man, and if ...