By the late 1890s the Kalgoorlie brothels had become a byword for degradation and the most flagrant in the English-speaking world. The Sun newspaper campaigned against the outrageous display...
The many expeditions into the desert in search of rumoured gold reefs have been overshadowed by the largely mythical account of Lasseter. Here Charnley details the men, machines, and disaste...
RAAF research at Shark Bay in WWII with descriptions of the area and a biography of GH Payne.
The biography of Dame Raigh Roe, President of the Country Woman's Association, and the story of her fight for rural women of Australia and the World.
Second only to the rebellion of Eureka Stockade, the great Queensland shearer’s strike of 1891 was suppressed with the threat of troops with artillery and machine guns. The leaders were ma...
James Cody was a charismatic young WA bushranger in the 1880s. He was shot by the police at Esperance. Research showed a strange colonial background with his mother hung for murder in the ol...
The war diary of Gunner Howell, 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade and his impressions of the Great War 1915-1918.
Tribal natives murdered Japanese fishermen on the NT coast in 1932. A great manhunt followed to capture the murderers.
The murder and trial that created a sensation in WA in 1897.
Louis Cox (1878-1975) was a returned soldier of the 16th Bn, who had, after working as a survey hand, started clearing a block near Kojonup. His reminiscences about the land and its people t...