A digital map documenting Australia's massacres of First Nations peoples from 1788 to 1930 has been finalised. 😢 #AusHistory #IndigenousHistory
March 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
A digital map documenting Australia's massacres of First Nations peoples from 1788 to 1930 has been finalised. 😢 #AusHistory #IndigenousHistory
Given our Australian Federal MPs are (mostly) older, white men, I wonder how many are even aware of the Australian Wars (aka the Frontier Wars) between Indigenous Australians and the white colonists. Rachel Perkins' 3-part series is excellent viewing (available on SBS On Demand). #auspol #AusHistory
January 20, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Given our Australian Federal MPs are (mostly) older, white men, I wonder how many are even aware of the Australian Wars (aka the Frontier Wars) between Indigenous Australians and the white colonists. Rachel Perkins' 3-part series is excellent viewing (available on SBS On Demand). #auspol #AusHistory
"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard"
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
January 18, 2026 at 4:23 AM
"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard"
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard"
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
February 24, 2026 at 5:11 AM
"Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard"
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
by @amyremeikis.bsky.social
On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. 26Feb2026 #auspol #AusHistory #politics #BookSky
Heads-up! Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social has joined #BlueSky. Overjoyed! Definitely worthy of a very warm welcome and a follow! 💐 🙏 😊 #auspol #AusHistory #BlueSkySocial
November 15, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Heads-up! Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social has joined #BlueSky. Overjoyed! Definitely worthy of a very warm welcome and a follow! 💐 🙏 😊 #auspol #AusHistory #BlueSkySocial
@wilstracke.bsky.social is spot on. Jan26 is not a day to celebrate, unless your aim is to celebrate invasion, dispossession, colonisation and mass murder. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land. #InvasionDay #AusHistory vt.tiktok.com/ZS6tBPpQ2/
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January 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@wilstracke.bsky.social is spot on. Jan26 is not a day to celebrate, unless your aim is to celebrate invasion, dispossession, colonisation and mass murder. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land. #InvasionDay #AusHistory vt.tiktok.com/ZS6tBPpQ2/
Before praising Tony Abbott (and seeking his return to politics), Steve Price really needs to read:
"The Road to Ruin" by Niki Savva and "The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott" by @andrewpstreet.bsky.social #auspol #AusHistory #books #BookSky
"The Road to Ruin" by Niki Savva and "The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott" by @andrewpstreet.bsky.social #auspol #AusHistory #books #BookSky
October 15, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Before praising Tony Abbott (and seeking his return to politics), Steve Price really needs to read:
"The Road to Ruin" by Niki Savva and "The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott" by @andrewpstreet.bsky.social #auspol #AusHistory #books #BookSky
"The Road to Ruin" by Niki Savva and "The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott" by @andrewpstreet.bsky.social #auspol #AusHistory #books #BookSky
Please remember: 26Jan25, then Deputy Liberal Leader, now Federal Liberal Leader, Sussan Ley defended the British arrival in Australia, insisting they didn't come to Australia "to destroy or to pillage". Um, yes, that's exactly what invasion, dispossession, colonisation is. #auspol #AusHistory
June 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Please remember: 26Jan25, then Deputy Liberal Leader, now Federal Liberal Leader, Sussan Ley defended the British arrival in Australia, insisting they didn't come to Australia "to destroy or to pillage". Um, yes, that's exactly what invasion, dispossession, colonisation is. #auspol #AusHistory
NAIDOC Week - '50 Years Deadly'
5 - 12 July, 2026 ❤️💛🖤
#NAIDOCWeek has become a modern celebration of First Nations history, culture and achievements.
But its beginnings were forged in determined activism...
www.australiangeographic.com.au/history-cult...
#NAIDOC #50YearsOfDeadly #AusHistory
5 - 12 July, 2026 ❤️💛🖤
#NAIDOCWeek has become a modern celebration of First Nations history, culture and achievements.
But its beginnings were forged in determined activism...
www.australiangeographic.com.au/history-cult...
#NAIDOC #50YearsOfDeadly #AusHistory
July 3, 2026 at 10:34 AM
NAIDOC Week - '50 Years Deadly'
5 - 12 July, 2026 ❤️💛🖤
#NAIDOCWeek has become a modern celebration of First Nations history, culture and achievements.
But its beginnings were forged in determined activism...
www.australiangeographic.com.au/history-cult...
#NAIDOC #50YearsOfDeadly #AusHistory
5 - 12 July, 2026 ❤️💛🖤
#NAIDOCWeek has become a modern celebration of First Nations history, culture and achievements.
But its beginnings were forged in determined activism...
www.australiangeographic.com.au/history-cult...
#NAIDOC #50YearsOfDeadly #AusHistory
April 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The sentence of transportation had a double impact when it came to colonisation. Irish men and women were exiled from their native land and rolled into the business of colonising Australian territories. CON is out on 1 November. #auslit #tasmania #aushistory #irish #Eire
October 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The sentence of transportation had a double impact when it came to colonisation. Irish men and women were exiled from their native land and rolled into the business of colonising Australian territories. CON is out on 1 November. #auslit #tasmania #aushistory #irish #Eire
The ‘sensible’ centre? Tell that to the giants of The Rocks and Eureka
- by Amy Remeikis
#auspol #aushistory
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
- by Amy Remeikis
#auspol #aushistory
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The ‘sensible’ centre? Tell that to the giants of The Rocks and Eureka
- by Amy Remeikis
#auspol #aushistory
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
- by Amy Remeikis
#auspol #aushistory
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
Age an Australian garden by checking to see if they have this pink flowering "Queen Elizabeth" rose with thick base stems on it - meaning it was planted mid century:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_%2...
Start looking, and you see them *everywhere*.
#AusHistory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_%2...
Start looking, and you see them *everywhere*.
#AusHistory
Rosa 'Queen Elizabeth' - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Age an Australian garden by checking to see if they have this pink flowering "Queen Elizabeth" rose with thick base stems on it - meaning it was planted mid century:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_%2...
Start looking, and you see them *everywhere*.
#AusHistory
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_%2...
Start looking, and you see them *everywhere*.
#AusHistory
Certainly when it came to "liberal" values. People forget how Labor and the union movt fought the Fraser Govt allowing Vietnamese refugees in the 70s, for example.
Precursors of Howard & co.
This from a review I wrote of Klaus Neumann's excellent history, Across the Seas:
#aushistory #unions
Precursors of Howard & co.
This from a review I wrote of Klaus Neumann's excellent history, Across the Seas:
#aushistory #unions
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Certainly when it came to "liberal" values. People forget how Labor and the union movt fought the Fraser Govt allowing Vietnamese refugees in the 70s, for example.
Precursors of Howard & co.
This from a review I wrote of Klaus Neumann's excellent history, Across the Seas:
#aushistory #unions
Precursors of Howard & co.
This from a review I wrote of Klaus Neumann's excellent history, Across the Seas:
#aushistory #unions
I believe my Gough Whitlam reading list is somewhat complete. Time to settle down with a wee dram and have a good read 📚🥃😊
(PS: I also have "The Dismissal" by Kelly & Bramston as well as John Kerr's "Matters for Judgement")
#Auspol
#OzSky
#AusHistory
#GoughWhitlam
#WhitlamGovernment
#TheDismissal
(PS: I also have "The Dismissal" by Kelly & Bramston as well as John Kerr's "Matters for Judgement")
#Auspol
#OzSky
#AusHistory
#GoughWhitlam
#WhitlamGovernment
#TheDismissal
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 AM
I believe my Gough Whitlam reading list is somewhat complete. Time to settle down with a wee dram and have a good read 📚🥃😊
(PS: I also have "The Dismissal" by Kelly & Bramston as well as John Kerr's "Matters for Judgement")
#Auspol
#OzSky
#AusHistory
#GoughWhitlam
#WhitlamGovernment
#TheDismissal
(PS: I also have "The Dismissal" by Kelly & Bramston as well as John Kerr's "Matters for Judgement")
#Auspol
#OzSky
#AusHistory
#GoughWhitlam
#WhitlamGovernment
#TheDismissal
The Liberal party notoriously criticised these movements bc they did not believe white Australians should feel guilt for colonisation. They (mostly) backed Howard's view of aus history that settlement should be 1. Celebrated or 2. Ignored.
Thats why they love 26 jan sm.
#auspol #aushistory
Thats why they love 26 jan sm.
#auspol #aushistory
But Indigenous people didnt stop their activism. Deaths in custody. 1997 Bringing Them Home report. Walk for Reconciliation movement. The 2008 apology. 2016 Uluru Statement. Takes us to the Voice referendum. All of these emphasised colonisation caused harm.
#auspol #australianhistory
#auspol #australianhistory
Howard's solution to division was to make ANZAC the centrepoint of Aus history, flooding us w events and public monuments so we could unite as a nation under the ANZAC legend.
That's why you know more about Gallipoli than any other event in Aus history
#auspol #australianhistory
That's why you know more about Gallipoli than any other event in Aus history
#auspol #australianhistory
February 13, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The Liberal party notoriously criticised these movements bc they did not believe white Australians should feel guilt for colonisation. They (mostly) backed Howard's view of aus history that settlement should be 1. Celebrated or 2. Ignored.
Thats why they love 26 jan sm.
#auspol #aushistory
Thats why they love 26 jan sm.
#auspol #aushistory
Took a walking tour of The Rocks in Sydney. The guide paid her respects to the First Nations custodians - and thereafter completely ignored them. 🙄 I thought that took some doing considering she covered the 1st 30
years or so - so you know a bit happened. 😢 #aushistory
years or so - so you know a bit happened. 😢 #aushistory
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Took a walking tour of The Rocks in Sydney. The guide paid her respects to the First Nations custodians - and thereafter completely ignored them. 🙄 I thought that took some doing considering she covered the 1st 30
years or so - so you know a bit happened. 😢 #aushistory
years or so - so you know a bit happened. 😢 #aushistory
Cartoon shows Jack Lang as the last Labor leader standing in the battle against the banks, but about to be stabbed in the back. Imagine any leader these days being standing up to the financial markets...
#auspol #banks #financialmarkets #aushistory #JackLang
#auspol #banks #financialmarkets #aushistory #JackLang
July 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Cartoon shows Jack Lang as the last Labor leader standing in the battle against the banks, but about to be stabbed in the back. Imagine any leader these days being standing up to the financial markets...
#auspol #banks #financialmarkets #aushistory #JackLang
#auspol #banks #financialmarkets #aushistory #JackLang
“Would they really care that the big supermarkets and retailers were open afternoons on the anniversary of disastrous Australian participation in an imperial invasion and failed occupation of an obscure finger of the Ottoman Empire?” Lest we forget Yassmin Abdel-Majied #AnzacDay #AusHistory #AusPol
NSW’s Anzac Day retail ban is the latest in a long line of pious and empty symbolic gestures | Paul Daley
Iconoclastic views on the holy acronym are too often condemned as disrespectful to the war dead
www.theguardian.com
August 8, 2024 at 3:56 AM
“Would they really care that the big supermarkets and retailers were open afternoons on the anniversary of disastrous Australian participation in an imperial invasion and failed occupation of an obscure finger of the Ottoman Empire?” Lest we forget Yassmin Abdel-Majied #AnzacDay #AusHistory #AusPol
“Perspective maps, made on rice paper, helped airmen recognise mountain, coastline or river shapes…Target maps were printed on edible silk scarves. The target would be in the middle of the map, so airmen did not have to orientate it mid-flight.” #cartography #AusHistory #AusPol #WWII #SecondWorldWar
‘I wanted to do something useful’: the teenager who drew edible maps for Australia’s wartime p...
Rulers and rice paper became tools of war for a young cartographer whose work is mapped out in a new collection donated to Queensland State Library
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2023 at 3:07 AM
“Perspective maps, made on rice paper, helped airmen recognise mountain, coastline or river shapes…Target maps were printed on edible silk scarves. The target would be in the middle of the map, so airmen did not have to orientate it mid-flight.” #cartography #AusHistory #AusPol #WWII #SecondWorldWar
Snap! I saw a billboard for this in the Brisbane CBD yesterday. I can’t fathom how Abbott would revise Australian history. I can only imagine The Dark Emu Story is beyond his comprehension.
#aushistory
#aushistory
October 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Snap! I saw a billboard for this in the Brisbane CBD yesterday. I can’t fathom how Abbott would revise Australian history. I can only imagine The Dark Emu Story is beyond his comprehension.
#aushistory
#aushistory
Some photos from inside Hambledon Cottage, Parramatta, including a vintage John Broadwood & Sons piano.
#parramatta #history #australia #museum #piano #music #aushistory
#parramatta #history #australia #museum #piano #music #aushistory
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Some photos from inside Hambledon Cottage, Parramatta, including a vintage John Broadwood & Sons piano.
#parramatta #history #australia #museum #piano #music #aushistory
#parramatta #history #australia #museum #piano #music #aushistory
Perth friends! you might be interested in a new audio history walk! Visit sites in the central Perth & learn about the people who opposed conscription in WW1.
If you're NOT in Perth, you can still hear the audio and see pics of some of the sites...
soundtrails.com.au/perth-anti-c...
#aushistory
If you're NOT in Perth, you can still hear the audio and see pics of some of the sites...
soundtrails.com.au/perth-anti-c...
#aushistory
Perth Anti-Conscription History - Soundtrails
The Perth Anti-Conscription History Walk focuses on individuals in Perth, WA, who made known their opposition to conscription in the lead up to the 1916 and 1917 conscription plebiscites (called refer...
soundtrails.com.au
August 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Perth friends! you might be interested in a new audio history walk! Visit sites in the central Perth & learn about the people who opposed conscription in WW1.
If you're NOT in Perth, you can still hear the audio and see pics of some of the sites...
soundtrails.com.au/perth-anti-c...
#aushistory
If you're NOT in Perth, you can still hear the audio and see pics of some of the sites...
soundtrails.com.au/perth-anti-c...
#aushistory
It has always fascinated me that so many regard "The Fatal Shore" as a definitive history of Australia. It is as this article points out riddled with errors. botanybaymen.com/revisiting-t...? #Books #AusHistory
Revisiting ‘The Fatal Shore’ | Botany Baymen
Whatever its literary merits, The Fatal Shore is not to be regarded as serious history. Hughes made egregious errors, caused by a failure to take care with his research, lack of a deep understanding o...
botanybaymen.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM
It has always fascinated me that so many regard "The Fatal Shore" as a definitive history of Australia. It is as this article points out riddled with errors. botanybaymen.com/revisiting-t...? #Books #AusHistory
Thanks to Links magazine for publishing my piece on the 220th anniversary of the Castle Hill rebellion in #Sydney by #UnitedIrish veterans of #VinegarHill.
#Ireland #AusHistory #IrishRepublic
links.org.au/death-or-lib...
#Ireland #AusHistory #IrishRepublic
links.org.au/death-or-lib...
‘Death or Liberty’: Australia’s Battle of Vinegar Hill at 220
Duroyan Fertl — Australia’s Battle of Vinegar Hill shook the colony to its core: a reaction that can only be understood in the context of the years immediately preceding it, both in Sydney, and in Ire...
links.org.au
March 6, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Thanks to Links magazine for publishing my piece on the 220th anniversary of the Castle Hill rebellion in #Sydney by #UnitedIrish veterans of #VinegarHill.
#Ireland #AusHistory #IrishRepublic
links.org.au/death-or-lib...
#Ireland #AusHistory #IrishRepublic
links.org.au/death-or-lib...