Australia's wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change

Research published today in Nature by University of Melbourne researchers, in collaboration with Gunaikurnai Land and Waters ...
Phys.org

Dried plants 19th-century Australian colonial institution indicate secret, illicit snacking among residents

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many foodstuffs that do not appear in official records were being eaten, potentially as an informal means to ...
Reuters

Colonial Australia's first artwork sold to a museum

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An engraved silver disc believed to be colonial Australia's first work of art was sold at auction on Tuesday for A$873,750 (almost $857,000) to an Australian museum, the ...
jpost.com

Australia’s unbridled hypocrisy: A colonial project's bias towards Israel's history - opinion

Unlike Australia, whose colonial project rests upon a 200-year history of conquest, the Jewish connection to Israel is ancient and eternal. Our ancestors are buried in Hebron on land Abraham paid for ...
Reuters

Australian researchers lay bare bloody history of colonial massacres

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of aborigines are estimated to have been murdered in 500 massacres across Australia from European settlement in 1788 until the mid-20th century, researchers said on Friday ...
The Conversation

Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody

When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic phenomenon. The disproportionately high rate of ...