The long Aboriginal occupation of Australia witnessed spectacular changes. The rising of the seas isolated the continent and preserved a nomadic way of life as agriculture revolutionised other parts of the world. Over millennia, the Aboriginal people mastered the land's climates, seasons and reserves. Traditional Aboriginal life came under threat the moment Europeans crossed the [...]
VOTE OF THANKS TO THE HON JULIE BISHOP MP ANDREW PENN On behalf of everybody this evening, it is my pleasure to offer a vote of thanks to the Foreign Minister Julie Bishop for her sobering, confronting and very prescient speech. Thank you for sharing an insight into your world and giving us all a [...]
Professor Jeffrey Grey, from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) at UNSW Canberra, is one of Australia’s finest military historians. His publications include A Military History of Australia, (Cambridge University Press) and The Australian Army: volume I: The Australian Centenary History of Defence, (Oxford University Press). In this centenary year of the Great [...]
The Hon Scott Morrison MP is the Minister for Social Services in the Abbott Government. Prior to December 2014, Scott Morrison established his credentials as the Abbott Government’s Minister for Immigration overseeing a successful end to the arrival in Australia of unauthorised boat people from Indonesia. As Social Services Minister, Scott Morrison has continued his [...]
South Australian Liberal Senator Sean Edwards believes South Australia could access tens of billions of dollars in the nuclear industry to store rods and rid the state of $4.4 billion in taxes including payroll tax, motor vehicle taxes and the Emergency Services Levy, while generating nuclear power could supply the entire state,. As the senator [...]
In our commemorations of the battles of World War I, there is little recognition of the Allied fight with the Germans in the Pacific, where Germany had territorial possessions and where sections of its fleet were based. Had Germany won the war, Australia’s sea lanes and neighbourhood would have changed drastically. Bartholomaeus Zielinski is currently [...]
