australia history

The story is straight out of a crime fiction novel but it has never been solved. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-19/six-clues-that-have-failed-to-solve-the-somerton-man-mystery/100148922 Police will try a DNA test to see if they can solve this.

A bit of local news. William Slim Drive to be renamed following Government review into place names So what do you think? Should things be renamed if the people they were named after are discovered to have been terrible people?

Didn't find any threads on this one. Who killed the Australian Prime Minister in 1967? Personally, I think there's a connection to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370... CT site: http://www.harold-holt.net/

I had a wonderful day today. I visited the HMB Endeavour replica while it was visiting the port of Portland, Victoria, Australia. Here's the official website of the ship: http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1372 Briefly the HMB Endeavour was the ship Captain Cook sailed around the world...

If you like to study recent history (as in 1932-1982) then you would love this link. The National Library has got digital copies of the Australian Women's Weekly. You can download them from the link. Free. Compare what they talked about then with how a modern women's magazine would talk...

I had a question about how New Zealand + Australia were settled. I was under the impression New Zealand was settled by people from New Guinea or the Philipeans. But Austrailia was never settled by these people despite being like 500 miles close to the Philipeans and Guinea. Why is this, why...

Australia is a large country occupying a continent of the same name, situated between the South Pacific, Southern and Indian Oceans. To the North lie New Guinea, Timor and Indonesia; to the East is New Zealand. Far to the South and West are Antarctica and Africa respectively. The flora and...

Hi I guess the title says it all. Reading about Ned Kelly was my first introduction to anything Australian, and looking at his last stand from different angles (he was both a hero and villain at the same time) helped me understand people a little better. Well, they're bangin' orf 'is...