Australia’s Frontier Wars were real, deadly, and long, and a landmark new book lays it out in full. So when will the ...

Historian Stephen Gapps’ latest book, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, describes a coordinated Aboriginal military front across more than 20 different Aboriginal nations and ...

The shake-up in the membership of the council which governs the Australian War Memorial makes a prominent recognition of the frontier wars there more likely.

WA's Governor has said sorry to the Bindjarab Noongar people for one of worst massacres in Australian history.

Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in colonial Australia carried a significant burden of responsibility for law and order for white settlers in Queensland and other ...

Hundreds of Aboriginal men who became native mounted police in colonial Australia carried a significant burden of responsibility for law and order for white settlers in Queensland and other ...

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in ...

Professor Peter Stanley of UNSW, Canberra, worked at the Australian War Memorial 1980-2007 and became its Principal Historian. His latest book is Lost Boys of Anzac. On Anzac Day, Australia remembers ...

A NEW front in the culture wars? Historians have called for battles between Aboriginal people and white settlers to be recognised in Canberra's War Memorial. The memorial is digging in against the ...

Along with British and Irish convicts, 627 free men, women and children were transported to the 19th-century penal colonies of Van Diemen’s Land. Their stories, mostly forgotten, are moving. Many ...