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Blackbirds: Australia’s hidden slave trade history
The racism that brought Australian South Sea Islanders here, and the racism that tried to send them back
After all that, where did Cook’s ship end up?
The end of a century-old enmity between Australia and a Solomon Islands community
Australia’s remote territory is agitating for autonomy
Barron Field and the myth of terra nullius
How a minor poet made a major historical error
Laurie Matheson, our man in Moscow
Was ‘Australia’s James Bond’ working for the KGB? Or ASIO? Or both?
Filling a big hole in the property market
The old Cave Hill quarry in Melbourne will be home to thousands
Mike Parr’s invisible performance and Tasmania’s complex past
Underneath the bitumen in Hobart, history becomes art
Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre
An extract from the book marking the massacre’s 180th anniversary
‘Deep Time Dreaming’ by Billy Griffiths
This history of archaeology in Australia charts our changing relationship with the past