25 April 1915: On the first anniversary of Australian troops landing at Gallipoli in Turkey, Anzac Day was observed around Australia and wherever Australian soldiers were posted.
Fifty years after the conflict in Vietnam, the Australian soldiers who fought still bear the scars – as do their children and grandchildren.
Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War officially ended 50 years ago, but the consequences have cut through our population for three generations.
In April 1954, Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, masquerading as Canberra diplomats, defected to Australia.
27 February 1902: Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant and Peter Handcock are executed.
Dr Karl tells the story of Australia’s first submarine in World War One, the AE2.
Anzac troops heading into the bloody conflicts of World War I used new handheld cameras to capture the true face of war for the first time.
Indigenous Australians were forbidden from voting in 1914, but that didn’t stop them from enlisting when war broke out.
Albert Borella travelled more than 1000km to enlist for WWI. For his bravery, he received the Victoria Cross
Monochrome images of war-torn landscapes, of dark skies and mud-laden boots trigger a distant memory of a bygone era. But not anymore. For over five years, policeman Juan Mahony persevered to revitalise a collection of World War I images, in colour, to make this slice of our history more accessible. Working alongside a team of digital artists, he made many visits to museums, studying original army uniforms and equipment from the Australian War Memorial, to achieve a real-life colour representation of individual soldiers and their stories. Juan was inspired by the 1916 death of his great uncle on the Western Front to get every detail right. He published the images in his book: The Digger’s View.