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Australian history

Environment //

Swampcore: An environmental history of Marrickville’s boho warehouse district

Exploiting land in Marrickville for profit is a colonial tradition.

October 25, 2022 Robbie Mason
Opinion //

The conservative crusade against the history curriculum

The Liberal Party’s attacks on the national history curriculum entrench conservative values and risk dumbing down a generation for political gain.

August 1, 2022 Aidan Elwig Pollock
Analysis //

Westernised history curriculum changes will alienate and disengage

Recent changes to the National Curriculum may reap uncertain consequences on and diminish history education.

February 20, 2022 Aidan Elwig Pollock
Features //

Cassandra Pybus, Truganini and the role of public history

Charting the career of historian Cassandra Pybus via her latest book Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse.

April 6, 2020 Robbie Mason
Analysis //

Wooden Ships and Iron Men: Race and Violence on the Beach Frontier

Maritime history without rose-tinted glasses. (Part 2 of 2.)

January 28, 2020 Robbie Mason
Analysis //

Mimicry and Memory: Aboriginal and Māori Seafarers during the Age of Sail

Cultural entanglements, commemoration and the Tasman Sea. (Part 1 of 2.)

January 24, 2020 Robbie Mason
Image of legislation with excerpts of letters laid over it
Analysis //

Australia’s Forgotten Labourer History

Seb Rees provides a historical account of Australia’s Pacific Island Labourers Act through various letters written at the time.

January 25, 2019 Seb Rees
Bungaree, dressed in colonial clothes, stands in front of the Endeavour ship.
Perspective // Australian History

Scott Morrison’s Endeavour voyage politicises Australian history

Scott Morrison’s $6.7 million Endeavour tour is not only guilty of historical inaccuracy, it erases the role of Aboriginal individuals in early colonial Australia.

January 24, 2019 Robbie Mason
Repeated image of an emu in style of propaganda poster with text "we want you to spoil all crops".
Misc //

One Bird And A Lot Of Stones

Adam Murphy on when emus fought the war and won.

October 16, 2015 Adam Murphy
Perspective //

Reproducing History

Phoebe Maloney on abortion and white supremacy.

March 18, 2015 Phoebe Moloney

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