Forthcoming! Analysis of how settler (un)belonging is narrativised in memoirs of settler belonging, written by Australian public intellectuals. See here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3szp5kwu #Colonialism #IndigenousStudies #AustralianHistory #PostcolonialStudies #MemoryStudies @masarykuniversity.bsky.social
🚂This scruffy legend rode the rails for over a decade!🐕Bob the Railway Dog hitchhiked across South Australia’s trains in the 1880s–90s, beloved by every driver and guard.📜His collar’s famous words? “Stop me not, but let me jog…”👉Share
#RailwayDog #AustralianHistory
🚂This scruffy legend rode the rails for over a decade!🐕Bob the Railway Dog hitchhiked across South Australia’s trains in the 1880s–90s, beloved by every driver and guard.📜His collar’s famous words? “Stop me not, but let me jog…”👉Share
#RailwayDog #AustralianHistory
At four feet and five inches, grandmother Caroline Grills would be one of the last people to be suspected of serial murder #talesfromthegrave #australianhistory #australianmurderers #genealogy #familyhistory #history
www.talesfromthegrave.org/post/carrie-...
A view from inside a historic stone building, looking out through an arched window. The interior walls are made of rough, multi coloured stone blocks with visible mortar and square holes where timber beams once sat. A yellow metal safety railing spans the foreground. Through the archway, green foliage and trees are visible, bathed in bright, natural light. The composition frames the outdoor greenery against the dark, textured masonry of the ruins.
Looking Out Through the Layers of Time.
Burra, South Australia.
© All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.
#Photo #Photography #Australia #SouthAustralia #HistoricRuins #BurraHeritage #StoneMasonry #ArchedWindow #AustralianHistory #AbandonedPlaces #TexturalPhotography #CopperMines
A 1991 "Democracy Manifest" outburst recording is now in Australia's archive, preserving a moment of Australian political expr...
📖 democracy.observer/posts/democracy-manifest...
#DemocracyObserver #AustralianHistory #CulturalPreservation
Sir Henry Browne Hayes was a knight, a kidnapper, and one of colonial Australia’s most unusual figures. He ordered 500 tons of Irish soil to be sent to his property, convinced it would rid the grounds of snakes.
#StPatricksDay #IrishInAustralia #SydneyHistory #VaucluseHouse #AustralianHistory
The Academy was proud to officially launch Australia’s War History, the latest educational resource from Seriously Social, at the historic Anzac Memorial in Sydney on Monday 9 March.
Read more here: socialsciences.org.au/news/austral...
#australianhistory #historyteachers #highschool #curriculum
Two of Australia's rarest pennies head to Brisbane auction
#1930Penny #RareCoins #AustralianHistory #Auctions #AusNews
thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-16-two-o...
#OnThisDay, 8 Mar 1978, over 400 women challenged Queensland’s ban on political marches by marching through Brisbane, Australia, demanding the end of violence against women, the right to abortion and lesbian rights. 51 people were arrested.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #AustralianHistory
A wide landscape photograph showing the ruins of the massive four story brick Penitentiary at Port Arthur Historic Site. The orange hued stone building sits behind a vast green lawn, with a wooden picket fence in the foreground and a lush forested hill in the background.
Echoes of the past written in brick and stone.
Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#Photo #Photography #Australia #Tasmania #Ruins #PortArthur #AustralianHistory #ConvictHeritage #HeritageSite
New video out today, my first covering a topic in the ACT!
Learn about what I think was one of the most important events in Australia's 20th century history, the 1940 Canberra air disaster
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_q_W69AyI8
#Canberra #Disasters #Australia #aviation #history […]
📽️ Delve into the life and work of Australia’s pre-eminent, and controversial, anthropologist and Arrernte linguist, T.G.H. “Ted” Strehlow (1908–1978) in “Mr. Strehlow's Films.”
#anthropology #ethnography #ethnographicfilm #TedStrehlow #Arrernte #Aboriginal #documentary #australianhistory
Emus once faced down the Australian army—and won #Science #Culture #EmusVsArmy #AustralianHistory #WildlifeConservation
https://www.popsci.com/environment/emu-wars-australia/
"Outback Odyssey" by Paul Rushworth-Brown is a powerful work of #historicalfiction that immerses readers in Australia’s rugged past with authenticity and depth. 📖✨
maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2026/02/outb...
#HistFic #BookSpotlight #AustralianHistory
The sacrifice of the Watherston family is considered one of the greatest regarding Australia's involvement in the Great War. #talesfromthegrave #australianhistory #history #familyhistory #genealogy #thegreatwar #worldwarone
www.talesfromthegrave.org/post/four-br...
Published online today: “Animal rights and animal wrongs: the conflicts and compromises of Animal Liberation Queensland with the animal agriculture industries, 1980–1989” by Marie-Elyse Smith.
#AnimalRights
#Vegan
#Activism
#AustralianHistory
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A high angle landscape framed by tree branches in the foreground. The image shows the ruins of a stone cottage with a prominent chimney standing in a dry, tilled field. The hills in the background are pale and sparsely vegetated.
A glimpse through the branches at a home long forgotten.
Hampton, South Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #RuralLife #AustralianHistory #OldHomestead #Ruins
A rustic, weathered wooden door set into a thick stone wall. The stones are irregular shapes bonded with white mortar. A rusty metal wheel and a dark wooden gate sit nearby on a paved floor.
If these walls could talk, imagine the stories they’d tell.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #southaustralia #RusticCharm #HistoricArchitecture #StoneWalls #OldDoor #AustralianHistory
Aboriginal People Southwest of Southwest
#aboriginalhistory #noongar #australianhistory #alwayswasalwayswillbe #indigenousaustralia www.facebook.com/reel/2432309...
Mary Gaudron QC sat at a desk. She is a white woman with light hair in a very 1980s blowout.
#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1987, Mary Gaudron QC was the first woman to be sworn as a justice in the High Court of Australia.
#WomenInHistory #AustralianHistory #WomenInLaw 🗃️
The visually beautiful Red Rock near Coffs Harbour on the NSW mid north coast. Also known as blood rock for a police massacre of Gumbaynggirr people in 1841, led by Major Henry Robert Oakes. Oakes still has various local places named after him #redrock #coffscoast #australianhistory #photography
Hit the big time now. #AcademicSky #AustralianHistory
Stiffen the wombats! - the Mailman delivered!! Gotta get reading right away! #WhatAreYouReading #BookReviews #20thCenturyHistory #MilitaryHistory #AvGeek #AviationHistory #AustralianHistory #RAAF #JapaneseImperialHistory #IJN #IJA #PacificWar #AirWar #SouthPacific #AlliedHistory #HistBookChat
A wide landscape photograph capturing the limestone ruins of the Old Telegraph Station in Eucla, partially buried by white sand dunes. The weathered stone walls stand against a clear blue sky, surrounded by sparse green coastal vegetation and a cluster of taller trees in the background. The foreground is filled with textured sand showing footprints and ripples.
History slowly surrendering to the sands of time.
Eucla, Western Australia.
© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.
#photo #photography #australia #westernaustralia #ruins #Eucla #TelegraphStation #AustralianHistory #SandDunes
Test post from my own scheduler!
Заснування Сіднея
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#ІсторіяАвстралії #Сідней #ПершийФлот #AustraliaDay #КолоніальнеМинуле
#AustralianHistory #Sydney #FirstFleet #AustraliaDay #Colonization
Looks like I recently became a #Cricket 🏏 fan and a #TeamAustralia 🇦🇺 fan at a good time.
#CricketSky #AustralianHistory
What makes a person so crazed that they would want to harm a family member? #talesfromthegrave #australianhistory #familyhistory #genealogy #history
www.talesfromthegrave.org/post/daughte...
