On This Day
Centenary of the Battle of Fromelles
It’s been 100 years since the darkest day in Australian military history, which saw the most casualties in 24 hours of any Australian battle.
It’s been 100 years since the darkest day in Australian military history, which saw the most casualties in 24 hours of any Australian battle.
A potent symbol of Aboriginal Australia recognised the world-over, this flag first ruffled in the wind in Adelaide in 1971.
This year is the 40th anniversary of Sydney’s annual Mardi Gras and follows on from the official legalisation of marriage equality in Australia.
Two hundred years ago liquor was downed to celebrate the founding of one of Sydney’s icons – now home to almost 9000 plant species.
In 1629 a group of men murdered more than half the survivors of the Batavia wreck on deserted islands off WA, but 45 fought back and won.
Did you know Australia once had its own mean, green paper note? That was until 1988, when the $2 coin rolled in.
It was a modest outdoor market that became one of Sydney’s grandest buildings, and then the Queen Victoria Building almost became a park.
Was Tasmania a viable Jewish homeland option during WWII? A young Melbournite Critchley Parker thought so.
Research scientist David Warren lost his father to an airline disaster when he was a boy, then went on to revolutionise global aviation safety.
Without our federal science body the world wouldn’t have WiFi. Looking back at 100 years of the CSIRO, and into its future.