The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional ...

There is some conjecture about the first European birth on Australian soil, but William Nash seems to be the prime candidate. His father, also William, was a Marine Private and his mother was Maria ...

When I tell people that I wrote a book about a colonial surveyor called Townsend, and that I spent almost seven years researching it, I am usually met with quizzical looks—it is rare for anyone to ...

The work Most useful native documents the grave site of Yuranigh (d.1850), a Wiradjuri man and ‘guide, companion, councillor, and friend’ to explorer and surveyor Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792 –1855).