On This Day
On this day: It’s Louisa Lawson’s birthday
Louisa Lawson was nothing if not an impressive woman – she was both mother to Aussie suffragettes and to national icon, Henry Lawson.
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On this day: Australia’s national flag gazetted
How did we end up with the flag we have today? Why didn’t we choose the animals playing cricket?
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VIDEO: Hunting for Antarctic dinosaurs
A University of Queensland palaeontologist is part of an expedition about to head to remote James Ross Island to search for fossils.
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Fossil Factfile: Kronosaurus
This apex carnivore of Australia’s prehistoric Eromanga Sea is one of the world’s largest known marine reptiles.
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On this day: John Batman’s birthday
John Batman is famous for offering to pay rent to traditional owners and naming the Melbourne-area Batmania for 81 days.
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On this day: Happy birthday Sir Doug Nicholls, Governor of South Australia
Yorta Yorta man, Sir Doug Nicholls was one of the most powerful voices for indigenous civil rights in Australia.
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Kunbarrasaurus is Australia’s new armoured dinosaur
The re-analysis of an incredibly preserved fossil shows Australia had a variety of armoured dinosaurs.
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Fossil Factfile: Procoptodon
The giant short-faced kangaroo must have made quite a thud as it bounded through the outback tens of thousands of years ago.
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On this day: The Melbourne Olympic Games open
Australia’s highest ever Olympic medal tally ranking was won the very first time it hosted, at the 1956 Melbourne Games.
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On this day: The birth of Qantas
In 1920, two Gallipoli veterans decided remote Australian communities needed an air service, and Qantas was born.