SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two statues of colonial figures were vandalised overnight in the Australian city of Melbourne, ahead of a contentious national holiday on Friday marking the arrival of the British ...

State Library of New South Wales/Photographer H.B. Solomons, 1887 The Conversation is running a series of articles on key figures in Australian political history, looking at the way they changed the ...

In one of the first studies of its kind, Australian scientists have investigated the health and economic status of a group of migrant settlers to colonial South Australia from an examination of ...

Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists and substantial investment in the Australian colonies. In the ...

Maritime archaeologists are working to restore the oldest colonial-era boat ever found in Australia, discovered during the ...