The former PM can be eloquent and erudite about Australia – but he has a very particular conception of what this nation is and how it came to be ...

Anna Clark could have titled her book “Remaking Australian History”, for that is its narrative arc. She celebrates a change in the stories Australians can tell of their nation: from a heroic tale of ...

The 1850s gold rush in Victoria brought an influx of prospectors from China, seeking their fortunes. National Museum of Australia This is the first in a series examining Australian national identity, ...

An account of the 1989 strike of the highly democratic and self-managed Australian Federation of Air Pilots union, which was the biggest industrial struggle of the period. John Pilger in his book ...

Australia’s most recent rediscovery of its Asian links, the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, has been widely canvassed. It argues that ‘the tyranny of distance is being replaced by the ...

Victorian students are turning their backs on learning about the nation’s history and politics, while subjects on climate ...