
On this day: Australia’s first atomic bomb test
On 3 October 1952, Britain tested its first atomic weapon off the coast of Western Australia.
On 3 October 1952, Britain tested its first atomic weapon off the coast of Western Australia.
In 1942, 130,000 British, Indian and Australian troops surrendered in one of the most stinging defeats of World War II.
Until recently, war service dogs awarded the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross hardly ever came home.
Every year, a festival in country NSW pays tribute to spring and attempts to heal the rifts of war.
A new national day to remember the 1942 bombing of Darwin in WWII has been proclaimed by the government.
Ahead of Rememberance Day, 500 images of lost Anzac diggers have been gifted to Australia from London.
From a handful of pine cones found by Aussie diggers at Gallipoli comes a living forest of war memorials.
Nancy Wake, the most decorated Australian servicewomen of WWII, known as the ‘White Mouse’, has died.
A photographer recorded the little-known experience of Australia’s German prisoners
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have had a significant but little-known role in our armed forces.