Submitted by Anonymous on
Paul Daley speaks to Chelsea Watego about why she says ‘fuck hope’ and why she wants to take her book, Another Day in the Colony, to Aboriginal readers in prisons
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego is published by University of Queensland Press.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
The steel city knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas
Nobody had reason to pay undue attention to Bronius “Bob” Sredersas after he arrived in Wollongong in 1950, one among thousands of postwar European migrants who helped grow the Illawarra’s Port Kembla steelworks into the biggest in the Commonwealth.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
If First Nations families fear and distrust the police, the reasons can be found in the past as well as the present
Submitted by Paul Daley on
The building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was a powerful symbol of where Australia thought it was going – and who it was leaving behind
In early 1924, when work began on arguably this country’s most defining built structure, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia was torn between self-identifying as a loyal outpost of empire and one of the globe’s most innovative new democracies.
Submitted by Paul Daley on
Aboriginal accounts recall dramatic storms and flooding that have caused deaths and changed the course of mighty waterways over millennia