Michael J Murphy

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...