In the decades following the end of the Second World War, Australia witnessed the biggest wave of migration in its history. Millions of people from Asia, Europe and the Middle East immigrated to Austr

In 1978, Sydneys first ever Mardi Gras took place. The Australia in which the parade happened, however, was profoundly different to today. LGBTQI people faced intense discrimination and persecution,

In May 1969, Clarrie OShea, the secretary of the Victorian branch of the tram workers union, was jailed for refusing to pay fines his union had been hit with under Australias repressive Penal Powe

Few periods of Australian history are as heavily mythologised as World War I. From school textbooks to Anzac Day ceremonies, were told that Australia was born as a nation on the shores of Gallipoli a

In 1971, Nick Origlass, a Trotskyist revolutionary, was elected as the mayor of Leichhardt Municipal Council in Sydney one of the most unusual developments in Australian political history. Nick Orig

In 1971, Australia exploded with protest against a sporting tour by the white supremacist South African rugby union team the Springbok. The Springbok were the ultimate international symbol of South

In 1929, the world plunged into the most catastrophic economic crisis in modern history – the Great Depression. The effect of the Depression on ordinary people across Australia was devastating. By the

In December 1981, 300 women working at the Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Melbourne, rose up against their employer and went on strike. None of the women at Kortex had ever been on strike before