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

Whores, damned whores and female convicts: Why our history does early Australian colonial women a grave injustice

Riaz Hassan receives funding from ARC. Some years ago while researching for my book on suicide in Australia, I thought it would be interesting to begin the book with a case study of the first recorded ...
The Conversation

‘One of the most extreme disasters in colonial Australian history’: climate scientists on the floods and our future risk

Andrew King receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Environmental Science Program. Linden Ashcroft receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sarah ...
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Children's embroidery reveals lost voices from Australia's early colonial history

Two hundred years ago, a 10-year-old Scottish girl named Margret Begbie threaded her needle. Carefully and precisely she stitched the finishing touches on a piece of embroidery that had occupied her ...