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The End of White Australia: How a Nation Quietly Rewrote Itself
By the time Egon Erwin Kisch arrived in Melbourne in 1934, fascism was ascendant in Europe. The Czech-born Jewish journalist had come to...
The Making of a Citizen
By the end of the 1940s, Australians were at a crossroads. Since Federation nearly half a century earlier, they had lived awkwardly between...
The Radical Commonwealth: How Early Australia Was Both Progressive and Exclusionary
In 1901, Australia entered nationhood carrying a set of contradictions that would shape it for decades. In its very first year, the new...
The City We Demolished
Once central to daily life, Melbourne’s Eastern Market was demolished in 1960 after decades of neglect. The City We Demolished explores how...
How We Learned to Demolish Our Cities
In the post-war drive to modernise, Australian cities dismantled the civic fabric that once anchored daily life. Markets, streetscapes, and...
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The Man Who Held Tobruk
Sir Leslie Morshead and the Rats of Tobruk
The Russians Were Coming: How Fear Fortified Melbourne
In the age of empire, Melbourne’s sudden wealth brought an unexpected fear: invasion. From ironclads to hidden guns at the Heads, colonial...
Who named Australia?
MATTHEW FLINDERS has long been credited with first using the name ‘Australia’ when, while imprisoned by the French on Mauritius in 1804,...
The Confederacy in the colonies
Australians had a surprising and, for the British government, costly role in the final action of the American Civil War.