war Archives

Defending Darwin: Australia’s WWII front line

Australia’s World War II front line was the Top End, where clues to our military past abound.

A brother and sister will walk the length of the Thai-Burma railway where almost 2700 Australians died.

The wreck of the warship HMAS Sydney has been awarded national heritage status.

Rangers from PNG’s Kokoda Track visited Australia to learn more about indigenous management of parks.

A bomb crater has been uncovered in Darwin’s city centre by a roadworks crew.

A new fifty-cent commemorative coin acknowledges the sacrifice of Australia’s drafted servicemen.

A former army captain has discovered the site of a pivotal battle between Australian and Japanese troops near Papua New Guinea’s Kokoda Trail.

One-eighth of SA is a no-go zone; a place of secret military testing, nuclear explosions and a heck of a lot of sheep.