In two pacts struck this week, the Australian Labor government has sought to establish control over the security and foreign policy decision making of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. The deals underscore ...

Northwestern Australia is a dry and barren region, home to the Gibson Desert, the Great Sandy Desert, and the Great Victoria ...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology Monday for his country's role in Britain's colonial history. Over the course of three centuries, Britain sent tens of thousands of children ...

Jarrod Hore receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists ...

Sean Scalmer received funding from the Australian Research Council for research on Graham Berry. The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key figures in Australian political history, ...

THE only really democratic experiment, beside our own, going on in the world to-day, is that of the English Australian colonies. All others are more or less disturbed by the political or social ...

High-level Australian government and military officials travelled to Papua New Guinea this month to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle of Bita Paka, near Rabaul—the first significant ...

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In his autobiographical book, Notes of a Convict of 1838, François Xavier Prieur recalled his harsh experiences on the sailing ship HMS Buffalo en route to Australia in 1839–40. “A wounded man ...