Michael J Murphy

In 1885, the NSW Colonial Government raised a contingent of troops to be sent to the Sudan as part of a larger British force. At the time, the departure of colonial troops to assist Britain was seen as a significant day in the colonies short history.

The Gundagai Flood of 1852 remains the deadliest flood in Australia's recorded history.

From the nineteenth century Australian writers and artists looked towards the Australian bush to help create a national identity.

Moreton Bay penal colony (1824-1939) was designed to alienate and punish convicts.

On 10 June , 1838, at least 28 Indigenous men, women and chidren were bound together and led away to be murdered at Myall Creek in...

At dawn on 3 December 1854 government soldiers stormed a barricade erected at Ballarat by miners of the Victorian goldfields. In a very...

The decision by the British Government in 1786 to establish a convict settlement in New South Wales initiated a series of voyages that...