To be an Australian is to have won “the lottery of life”, former prime minister Tony Abbott writes in his fascinating and ...

Santilla Chingaipe’s new book brings a fresh and urgent perspective to bear on Australian history. But in countering misrepresentations she overlooks existing scholarship. Along with British and Irish ...

When the Tasmanian convicts seized the colonial Cyprus brig and made a daring dash for freedom across the Pacific, they ...

Both strategic and commercial motives guided the British government’s choice of New South Wales as a convict colony.

Tasmania's convict heritage was officially recognized by UNESCO last month, when 11 Australian convict sites, five of which are located in the southernmost state of Tasmania, were added to the UNESCO ...

I first read John Hirst (1942-2016) as an undergraduate in the late 1990s as part of a subject on 19th-century Australian history. We discussed convict history and explored contrasting views about its ...