Australasian & Pacific History

Pay Dirt: The Westland Goldfields, from the diary of William Smart is the fascinating story of how payable gold was discovered in West Canterbury, ...

In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook a daring, behind the lines reconnaissance of the Japanese-hel...

Port Phillip''s free settlers often said that they were civilising a wilderness. The truth was that the occupied country already had people, laws, ...

The 5G Myth explains why the vision of 5G, the next generation in mobile telephony, heralded as a huge advance in global connectivity, is flawed an...

Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. `This man . . . w...

Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase the 'great Australian silence', addressing the culture of denial or...

How do health care workers manage disaster on an unprecedented scale? The 2011 Canterbury earthquakes were more challenging to the regions health ...

The University of Melbourne was already over 110 years old when this history begins. The second oldest university in Australia, it has been graced ...

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two...

Australia's First Families of Wine celebrates eleven of Australia's most iconic and important wine families and the vineyards and businesses they h...

Today's New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations. Although the nation's Maori (indigenous Polynesian) and Pakeha (c...

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two...

Percy Bysshe Shelley once described poets as the ''unacknowledged legislators of the world''. If this is true, Australian political scientists have...

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast As...

Since its formation in 1853 the story of the Victoria Police has been interwoven with Victorian social and political history. Following the amalgam...

English novelist Anthony Trollope described Victoria's Western District squatters in the 1870s as 'plentiful, proud, prejudiced, given to hospitali...

Breaking the Silence recovers the conflicted politics around Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century. From 1905, when ...

Many New Zealand families were affected by the 1918 influenza pandemic. In the space of about six weeks, over 6400 Pakeha died and an estimated 250...

In the place names of a country large parts of its history are embalmed The names persist longer than the beings who gave them. J.C. AndersenPlace...

In his latest book, John Clark, author of Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions from the Past and Hawai`i Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites, cont...

During 19171918, war ravaged the hill country north of New Caledonias main island, the Grande terre. Occurring sixty-four years after Frances 1853 ...