Fairlight CMI - the sound you've never heard of
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian instrument that shaped the sound of the 1980s and forever changed how popular music ...
Sister Edith Blake WW I
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sister Edith Blake’s gripping story, from her training in Sydney to nursing Australian soldiers i...
Buried Treasure - the story of Lake Pedder
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lake Pedder, in Tasmania’s vast south-west region, was known for its pink quartzite beach, its pr...
The Benalla Experiment
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australia's least remembered migrant camp for 'unsupported' mothers.
The job with the best view in the world
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge isn't for the fainthearted. Angela Heathcote’s dad Kelly t...
William Ah Ket: the first Chinese-Australian barrister
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1904, William Ah Ket became Australia’s first Chinese barrister. He went on to fight racist la...
Nah Doongh's story
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nah Doongh's story tells of a life that was lost and found; a life that spanned the entire 19th cen...
Steely women
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forty years ago Australian women weren't fighting for equal pay, they were fighting for an equal ri...
The bay leaves of West Terrace cemetery
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The uplifting story of the Baby Memorial at Adelaide's West Terrace cemetery.
Only Joking
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Comedian David Rose digs into the archives and discovers a very personal story: about a life lived ...
Fight for the Forest
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In an unprecedented political move, the Western Australian state government will end logging of nat...
Mrs C private detective
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A journey back to the mean streets of Brisbane in the 1920’s with feisty private detective – Mr...
The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 2
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The continuation of the amazing story of the first woman to sail around the world.
The lost journal of Jeanne Barret: Part 1
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The amazing story of the first woman to sail around the world.
Tommy Walker and the bone collector
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner tells the tale of two men from the opposite ends of Adelaide societ...
The Little Sparrow - the ASIO spy inside the Communist Party
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1950s Adelaide housewife Anne Neill made a life-changing decision: she joined the Comm...
Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dyarubbin, the mighty Hawkesbury River, winds its way along the foot of the Blue Mountains, around ...
Diamond Jack, Smirnov and the Pelikaan
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A wild ride involving a Russian flying ace, an escape from Java in World War 2, and a missing packa...
The Lost Boys of Daylesford
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On a clear cold Sunday morning in June 1867, three little boys wandered away from their home near ...
Finding Eve Langley, writing a life
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where does the life of Australian poet and writer Eve Langley end and her fiction begin?
Commemorating James Stirling?
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The statue of Western Australia's first governor, Captain James Stirling, in central Perth is hard ...
Caribbean Convicts in Australia
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1836, the convict ship the Moffatt left Portsmouth harbour in England to travel halfway around t...
Respect! - the 1986 Nurses Strike
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the lead up to Christmas 1986, a battle was fought on the streets, in the hospital wards, and on...
150 years at the Art Gallery of NSW
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For most of its life, the Art Gallery of NSW was dank and dingy. In the 1970s, there was no air con...
Resonate
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nazi collaborator is a label that still resonates in Belgium 75 years after the end of the Second W...
Brother artist Hosea Easton
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1899 two thousand people attended the funeral of an African-American banjo player in Sydney. W...
Henson Park: the eighth wonder
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
History, tragedy, and triumph. Marrickville’s Henson Park is an icon of Sydney's inner west. But...
May Wirth: bareback riding queen
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
'I can do things no woman ever did before in the history of the circus business.' May Wirth
Pentridge prison: a violent past and complicated present
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's a brutal history behind the imposing walls of Melbourne's Pentridge prison, stretching from...
Ray Denning part 2: stitch up
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With nothing to lose, Raymond Denning escapes Grafton prison in a rubbish bin.He has help from pris...
Ray Denning part 1: breaking out
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The story of one of Australia's most misunderstood criminals.After a traumatic childhood, Raymond D...
You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 2
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have writers been imprisoned in Australia for their work? Most definitely and PEN has worked to h...
You are not alone: 100 years of PEN International Part 1
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Writers go to prison for the courageous pursuit of their craft and PEN has been working to get them...
The curious geologist
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How a South Australian geologist named Reg Sprigg helped solve Charles Darwin's dilemma
Seachange: 20 years on from the Tampa Affair
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When a Norwegian container ship - the MV Tampa – rescued 438 asylum seekers from a sinking boat o...
Miner Poets - songs and verse from the west coast of Tasmania
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We travel to the west coast of Tasmania, to meet the mining communities who carry on a rich cultura...
Stories from the Archibald
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the 100th anniversary of Sydney's Archibald portrait prize, artist Wendy Sharpe takes a look at ...
Alone with J.S. Bach
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach is a lifetime companion for many violinists. And in our time of ...
Whitlam's China chance: the origins of the Australia-China relationship
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the Cold War winter of July 1971 ALP leader Gough Whitlam made an audacious trip to Beijing. Thi...
Those Bloody Vegos - a short history of vegetarianism in Australia
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Early in 2020, a vegetarian version of the iconic Four’N Twenty meat pie hit service stations aro...
Escape from Greece 1941
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One soldier's incredible World War II escape story through southern Europe. Why haven't Australian'...
Yarramundi and the people of Dyarubbin
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dyarubbin, the mighty Hawkesbury River, winds its way along the foot of the Blue Mountains, around ...
How hypnosis brought the CIA to Australia
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Orne was one of the leading psychologists of the 20th century, his specialty was the scien...
An Object in Time - The Whip
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The whip played a central role in the development of Australia. What can it tell us about our socie...
An Object in Time - The Ginger Beer
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The refreshing beverage that revolutionised the law.
An Object in Time - The Envelope
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An envelope is a humdrum communications device – except when it’s full of misinformation, tucke...
An Object in Time - The Cup of Tea
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The story of how the humble cup of tea came to represent a ruthless British Empire.