History & Culture
In the name of the great-great-grandfather
The legacy of the famed architect of the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin, is profoundly in evidence through his Aussie-based descendant, Chris Darwin.
Tag: history
Tim the Yowie Man
A tale of mistaken identity and whalebone picnics
For more than 20 years, the jawbone of a whale lay on the grass just behind the golden sands of Long Beach, near Batemans Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales.
History & Culture
Looking back at Australia’s largest political demonstration
In an unprecedented, and largely spontaneous, sign of national solidarity for reconciliation and support for First Nations people, more than 250,000 people walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 28 May 2000.
History & Culture
Defining Moments in Australian History: Assisted migration
1832: Aid to encourage migrants to Australia begins.
History & Culture
Indigenous rock-art sites ‘chosen’ for vantage
Researchers have discovered internationally significant rock-art sites in Arnhem Land were far from random and instead ‘chosen’ for the critical vantage points they provided.
History & Culture
Defining Moments in Australian History: Australia’s first Olympian
1896: Edwin Flack races into history.
History & Culture
The whaling captain, a secret plan and one of Australia’s boldest prison escapes
On 19 April 1876, a group of Irish Fenian prisoners who became known as the ‘Fremantle Six’ escaped from Australian authorities. However, the plan to secure their freedom began more than a year earlier and thousands of kilometres away.
Energy
Even as the fusion era dawns, Australia is still in the Steam Age
Steam locomotives clattering along railway tracks. Paddle steamers churning down the Murray. Dreadnought battleships powered by steam engines.
History & Culture
Who invented the flat white?
Australia’s coffee culture – a source of great national pride – is usually associated with the wave of Greek and Italian migrants who settled in Melbourne and Sydney following the second world war. But it was very likely in regional Queensland that one of Australia’s favourite brews first took root.
