When Australia was invaded in 1788, the new colonys nascent ruling class deployed violence and repression on two fronts. On one side of the frontier, the colonial administration used troops and pasto

Since it was founded in the 1920s, BHPs Port Kembla steelworks has completely dominated the town of Wollongong, employing over 25,000 workers at its peak and physically towering over the city. For mu

In mid-2016, the University of Sydney abruptly announced that it would be closing Sydney College of the Arts, its internationally-renowned arts school. Within the space of a few months, the school, wh

In November 1975, the elected Labor Party government of Australia was sacked without notice by Sir John Kerr, the governor-general. Having single-handedly gotten rid of the elected government, Sir Joh

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In 1977, the premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, abolished the right to hold street protests. Dont bother applying for a march permit, he declared. You wont get one. Thats government pol

In 1996, newly elected politician Pauline Hanson swept to national prominence after making an extraordinarily racist and inflammatory maiden speech in federal parliament attacking Aboriginal people an

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Wee Waa, in northern New South Wales, is at the centre of the cotton industry in Australia. Tens of thousands of hectares of cotton crops surround the town, which describes itself as the cotton capit

In the late 1960s, thousands of Turkish migrants began moving to Australia as part of a wave of post-World War II immigration that permanently changed the face of Australian cities. For the Australian