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Moby Dick was not entirely a fictional creation. This was one of the most suprising facts ...

Could a chance meeting in 1892 between Alfred Felton and the newly appointed director of the National Gallery of Victoria, a young Englishman called Bernard Hall, perhaps supply the answer to a question that has teased historians for the better part of a century? 

The individual contributions of the Brigidine Sisters are woven into the vibrant tapestry of a religious institute dealing with struggle, conflict and great change over 130 years. 

The proper expression of charity is crucially important to Australia's future wellbeing, and the history of social service organisation HammondCare surely demonstrates.

If Australia’s political scene since 2010 appears tumultuous, with Prime Minister Gillard clinging to power by the skin of her teeth in a hung Parliament, it is nothing compared to what happened in Canberra at the beginning of World War II.

Misunderstood history is forgotten history and forgotten history is, famously, ripe for repetition. 

The multi-billion dollar coal seam gas industry has arrived on the outskirts of Australia’s biggest city and everyone’s ducking for cover. 

  The most erotic thing a man can do for a woman is … the dishes.

You can be devoted to Australia and wish to see it do well, without beating your breast or telling others to ‘Love it or leave it’. 

Aussie English is alive and well and as fit as a Mallee bull.

On 5 July 1955, an eighteen-year-old art student named William (Bill) Wright was walking past the old women’s cell block of Darlinghurst Gaol eating a Sargents meat pie covered in tomato sauce. 

There has never been a better time to be a consumer of scientific information. Thanks to the internet, we have an embarrassment of riches.