The impact of this election on the official record will be significant, shaping both the immediate political landscape and future historical documentation.
GunaiKurnai Elder Uncle Russell Mullett at entrance to Cloggs Cave, East Gippsland.
Jess Shapiro, courtesy GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation
The Australian Labor Party has been around for more than a century. In that time, very few MPs have crossed the floor. Why does it matter so much that one did?
Cultural historian Clair Wills reflects on the secret cousin born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, which at one point had a morality rate of 75% – and her family’s complicity in a national tragedy.
Centuries ago, women could “plead the belly” - argue they were pregnant to avoid the death penalty. It gave rise to the female jurors in Australian courtrooms.
Our roads are full of potholes but at least they don’t smell of horse pee.
Amputees in 16th century Europe commissioned iron hands from artisans, many of whom had never made prostheses before.
Lernestål, Erik, Livrustkammaren/SHM
Even before writing was invented, oral stories had to be constantly told and retold to be passed down through hundreds of generations.
Drawing shows men making shoes at the Philadelphia Almshouse, circa 1899.
Alice Barber Stephens/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Alfred Bendiner Memorial Collection
Amid rising unemployment, inflation and poverty in the 1830s, Philadelphia taxpayers believed welfare scammers were bleeding coffers dry. Poor lists from 1829 show they were wrong.
At the heart of the Maya civilisation were sacred sites where ritual sacrifices took place. A new DNA analysis reveals more about this practice and Maya genetic legacy.
In the Regency period there was advice for women of all sizes.
The Beatles, with stand-in drummer Jimmie Nicol, at their Melbourne press conference on June 14 1964.
AAP Image/Supplied by the Powerhouse Museum, Arts Centre Melbourne, Laurie Richards
Despite its name, this sandstone slab is not a simple stone. It was once part of a monument, an ancient epigraph measuring three by three metres carrying about 50 lines of text.
A colorized engraving depicts enslavers selling enslaved people in the 19th-century South.
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Simon Trafford, School of Advanced Study, University of London
King Cnut has the dubious honour of being the first person recorded in English history to have been disturbed by something frustratingly urgent just as he was about to enjoy a bath.
In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event.
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