Australia’s history includes droughts, gold rushes, and plenty of political debates. One unusual episode, however, began with ...

Australia’s history did not begin with colonization. Tens of thousands of years before empires rose elsewhere, Aboriginal Australians were living, adapting, and building culture across the continent.

More than 300 people died when Tropical Cyclone Mahina slammed into the north Queensland coast on 4 March 1899.

A recent study has unearthed fascinating insights into Australia’s indigenous history through the examination of a unique 19th-century boomerang. This unusual artifact, which dates back to the 1800s, ...