History

The Wangany Mala documentary delves into how Yolŋu people from north-east Arnhem Land and Macassans from modern-day Indonesia traded before colonisation.

While the legacy of John Batman's 1835 treaty with Kulin elders is contested, the story of the violent entrepreneur who tried to bargain with Melbourne's Aboriginal owners is a defining moment in Victoria's colonial history.

With their bright colours, soft tops and eye-catching designs, Mini Mokes are instantly recognisable.

LSD is a relatively new drug, compared to many others. And its history has been influenced by some unlikely groups.

In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare relics of the past, striking deals with collectors and opal miners and unlocking our understanding of deep geological history.

A secretive military history, a defence science facility, and a haunted house. Exmouth has all the makings of a good scary movie. 

Edna Walling was one of Australia's most influential garden designers, known for her use of low stone walls, meandering pathways and self-seeding plants. 

IKEA has promised to pay $9.9 million to political prisoners of the East German dictatorship who were forced to make its products in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Tulane University’s Luke Auld-Thomas says his team found over 6,000 buildings in Valeriana, using advanced laser scanning technology.

In 2010, three workers were poisoned by toxic gas from an old underground pipe. Now there is a push to do something about the "potentially fatal" risk — but the company that owned the pipes went bust and nobody knows where they are anymore.

The inspiration for the Korean author's book Human Acts stems from a devastating massacre in Gwangju over 40 years ago, but the ripple effects are still being felt today.

After 25 years, there's a changing of the guard on Gabo Island as one lighthouse keeper retires and hands the keys to his replacement, in a tradition spanning 160 years.

Ask any Brisbane child of the 1990s and earlier what their memories of the Queensland Museum are and they might start talking about this giant lizard. 

Margaret Atchison could be the last person still alive who saw a Dutch aircraft in southern NSW skies before residents helped it land safely 90 years ago.

The WA Museum is criticised after acquiring a piece of perspex protecting an iconic Australian painting which was graffitied by climate activists.

The night Gwenda Allgood told her husband she was considering running for local council, she slept in her son's bedroom. She refused to leave until her husband gave her his support.

Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko has won one of Australia's richest literary prizes, the ARA Historical Novel Prize, for Edenglassie, which interweaves stories of Aboriginal peoples in the past and present.

A new public holiday and more oversight of government spending on Indigenous affairs are among the ideas being taken into Victoria's treaty negotiations later this year.

Gibbet Hill — set in a notorious crime hotspot in the English countryside and published as Bram Stoker was beginning work on Dracula — is rediscovered by an amateur historian passing the time in the National Library of Ireland.

As Australia's population nears 30 million, this is the story of how we got here and where we might be heading next.