In 1789, one mysterious outbreak changed Australia's history; scientists may have solved it

In 1789, a horrific outbreak devastated Indigenous Australians around Sydney Harbor. Up to 70% of local First Nations people died. For over 200 years, the cause remained a mystery. Now, scientists ...
The Conversation

Friday essay: beautiful, available and empty – how landscape photographers reinvented the colonial project in Australia

Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists and substantial investment in the Australian colonies. In the ...
Phys.org

Dried plants 19th-century Australian colonial institution indicate secret, illicit snacking among residents

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals many foodstuffs that do not appear in official records were being eaten, potentially as an informal means to ...
Science Daily

Tooth isotopes offer window into South Australia's early colonial history

New archaeological techniques have uncovered the origins of 13 early South Australian colonists buried in unmarked graves in the Anglican Parish of St Mary's Church in Adelaide. Published in ...
Phys.org

'Dates add nothing to our culture': Everywhen explores Indigenous deep history, challenging linear, colonial narratives

When the eminent Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner first published his essay on "The Dreaming" in 1956, there was increasing scholarly and popular interest in the complexity and duration of ...