History & Culture Archives

Floating first

Colour fills the skies above Northam, Western Australia, as the Top Guns of the balloon world chase glory in the Women’s World Hot Air Balloon Championship.

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Commemorating brothers in arms on Country

Members of Aboriginal communities are warned that this story contains images and names of deceased people.

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Indigenous rock-art sites ‘chosen’ for vantage

Researchers have discovered internationally significant rock-art sites in Arnhem Land were far from random and instead ‘chosen’ for the critical vantage points they provided.

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Defining Moments in Australian History: Australia’s first Olympian

1896: Edwin Flack races into history.

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The whaling captain, a secret plan and one of Australia’s boldest prison escapes

On 19 April 1876, a group of Irish Fenian prisoners who became known as the ‘Fremantle Six’ escaped from Australian authorities. However, the plan to secure their freedom began more than a year earlier and thousands of kilometres away.

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Ever heard of a moonbird?

The strong connection between King Island’s people and its moonbirds is celebrated by an arts festival bringing culture and conservation together.

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Why (most) Aussies love daylight saving

Daylight saving has 80 per cent support in Australia and a majority in every state.

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Who invented the flat white?

Australia’s coffee culture – a source of great national pride – is usually associated with the wave of Greek and Italian migrants who settled in Melbourne and Sydney following the second world war. But it was very likely in regional Queensland that one of Australia’s favourite brews first took root.

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Desert delight

The Great Victoria Desert, Australia’s largest, defies expectations. Visibly rich in biodiversity, it challenges preconceptions about how a desert should look.