In April 1789, 15 months after the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, a major smallpox epidemic broke out. The Europeans who’d arrived in 1788 had some resistance to the disease through earlier ...

Tariffs make no sense as economic policy — but maybe that’s not the point. Tariffs are more like war, and Australia is set to ...

Yet, in response to the 432 deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ... I knew that people of African descent were aboard the First Fleet (as I capitalise this, this book makes me wonder ...

The sources of information in the submission were books published since the arrival of the First Fleet. They present clear evidence about the lives of the Aborigines and how they reacted to the ...

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

During the exercise, a German fleet attacked and sank two allied ... and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP. This programme has been updated since the original broadcast.

I’m working with the Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition, we’ve done a lot of work ... primarily to pay salaries of bus drivers and mechanics to repair our aging fleet. My absolute first priority would be to ...

Netflix doesn’t often renew freshman comedies quickly but it did for North of North. A good thing too because the series is ...

Australia Day marks the anniversary of the first fleet of British ships that arrived on Australian ... To a growing number of Aussies, thus began the British occupation of Aboriginal land, thus ...

But the most truly remarkable of the First Fleet’s contingent was Lieutenant William Dawes. He befriended the Indigenous Eora people and attempted to learn their language. His notebooks have survived ...

Eva Bacon – dress designer, political activist, and feminist Eva was born on 1 October 1909 in Vienna.  She was the eldest of ...

Social workers in First Nations communities need to incorporate Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing at the heart of their supervision practices on Country. That's the recommendation from ...