Peter Mares: What inspired you to revive these crime stories? Ken Gelder: Well, in fact you have just been talking about how prize winners can slip out of print. In fact colonial bestsellers in ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Two monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary of ...

"This sort of vandalism really has no place in our community and we'll be working, I want to signal today, that we will be working with council to repair and reinstate the statue, the statue in St ...

Two statues of colonial figures were vandalised overnight in the Australian city of Melbourne, ahead of a contentious national holiday on Friday marking the arrival of the British fleet that colonised ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An engraved silver disc believed to be colonial Australia's first work of art was sold at auction on Tuesday for A$873,750 (almost $857,000) to an Australian museum, the ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Anthology of Colonial Australian Adventure Fiction is the fourth in a series that resurrects ...

A restaurant in Brisbane, Australia has been accused of “gross racism” on social media for promoting itself as celebrating the British Empire’s “push into the developing cultures of the world." ...

It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research suggesting that dingoes were buried -- ...

19:00, Fri, Oct 20, 2023 Updated: 20:08, Fri, Oct 20, 2023 While dingos are seen as pests in many parts of Australia, such was not always the case — with the wild dogs having an “almost human” status ...

A statue in Melbourne of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was sawn off at the ankles, while a Queen Victoria monument in the city’s Queen Victoria Gardens was ...