Flashers, fauna fails and felons: There’s a lot to think about on Australia Day

There’s more to our national celebration date than you might think, as history writer MATT MURPHY discovered while ...

Explorers Bass and Flinders named five Illawarra islands after themselves

Home to migratory sea birds, seals and penguins, the history of Wollongong's five islands goes back well beyond Bass and ...

Book Box: A Republic on rails — Finding India in its trains

Monisha Rajesh writes of this invention in India in 80 Trains: “Fortunately, Indian Railways has a useful system in place for latecomers, emergencies and the disorganised… Two days before a train ...
The Malta Independent

Tracing the history of the Jewish community in Malta: from early times to World War Two

The history of the Jews in Malta is one of the lesser-known stories across Maltese history - but while never anywhere near ...