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Putin says UK, France still blame Russia for collapse of their colonial empires
The United Kingdom and France blame Russia for the dissolution of their colonial empires and have retained this historical ...
Children's embroidery reveals lost voices from Australia's early colonial history
Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what can ...
Black bushranger brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor were hanged in 1901. But were they ‘wicked’ or wronged?
Historian Katherine Biber invites us to see the lives, crimes and deaths of Jimmy and Joe Governor in the context of bigger national ambitions – and colonial racism.
Irish people support Palestinians because they recognise the settler colonial process at play
Settler colonialism describes how imperial states capture a territory, migrate there, displace or eliminate the “barbarian” ...
Concerns over Creative Australia’s peer-review grants process
Creative Australia’s peer assessment model of recommendations – in which grants are assessed by industry figures themselves – ...
‘A defiant stand’: histories of Australia’s frontier wars are revealing their true complexity, but there’s more to be done
Australian military history is still unsure how to represent the frontier wars. Uprising contests most histories, describing ...
Australia pensions in $2.7 Trillion industry shift focus from US
Top Australian pension funds diversify away from US equities due to Trump policies, eyeing emerging markets and alternative ...
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Towards an Australian Soviet
In his famous Tenterfield Oration, Henry Parkes, the founding father of the Australian federation, argued for a nationwide ...
Australian minister says attack on Melbourne synagogue is 'attack on Australia'
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke called an alleged arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue with worshippers in the ...
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Anonymous image makers, New York nights and confronting the colonial: three photography shows to see at Les Rencontres d'Arles
Taking over the city of Arles in the south of France each summer since 1970, Rencontres d’Arles photography festival returns ...
Australian Pension Funds Shift Focus From US
Good morning, it’s Angus here in Sydney. Here’s what you need to know this Tuesday.Today’s must-reads:• Super funds look ...
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The complex history of Australian rum—and the best places to find it
The role of rum in colonial Australia “Rum was a currency because everyone was addicted to it,” says Matt Murphy, author of the book Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial Australia.