Four years before the inaugural Tour de France, four cyclists known as ‘Overlanders’ set out on a race around Australia. On 24 November 1896 a wiry and wily bushman named…

Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.

In Australia’s rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia’s history and identity The passionate historians of…

It’s well established that parents in western countries such as Australia currently do too much for their kids, albeit with good intentions. Before driving their kids to…..

The little known and intriguing WWII story of an eleven-year-old Australian schoolboy who was shot by the Japanese in Rabaul in 1942 as a suspected spy.

It’s hard to imagine…