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A bronze statue of Dr. Lowitja O'Donoghue now stands on Adelaide's River Torrens, celebrating the trailblazing Aboriginal leader who opened doors for generations. She's the first of six prominent Indigenous South Australians who will be honored with statues across the city.
A groundbreaking exhibition in Western Australia is rewriting colonial history by centering Indigenous voices that were deliberately overlooked for 140 years. Seven Menang elders are sharing their oral histories to complete the story of Albany, Australia's first colonial settlement.
Indigenous Yindjibarndi people in Western Australia just won the largest native title compensation payout in Australian history. The $150 million Federal Court award marks a major milestone for Indigenous land rights, though community leaders say there's still work to be done.
Australian street artist Peter Drew has spent a decade plastering 5,000 handmade posters across the country, celebrating overlooked faces in Australian history. His self-funded project challenges who gets to be called "Aussie" and sparks conversations about belonging in communities nationwide.
An 83-year-old historian and a devoted group of "tombstone tourists" are preserving Australia's oldest surviving European cemetery through monthly gardening sessions. Their labor of love is about to get professional support through a heritage grant.
In a small Queensland town, two granddaughters of WWI veterans are piecing together the forgotten stories of 140 soldiers who started new lives on cane farms after the war. They've found 60 photos so far and won't stop until every soldier settler is remembered.
After more than 80 years, six Solomon Islands soldiers who served in a secret WWII reconnaissance unit have finally been identified, reuniting families with their grandfathers' lost stories. Their discovery brings overdue recognition to men who defended Australia's northern coast but were sent home without veteran benefits.
Patricia Moseley turned grief into art in 1982, teaching herself to sculpt using her grandfather's chisels. The pioneering horsewoman went on to create bronze busts of Australia's most celebrated figures from single photographs alone.
A new art exhibition celebrates Mirka Mora, a Holocaust survivor who rejected 1950s conformity to become both a devoted mother and groundbreaking Australian modernist artist. Her granddaughter now curates a show honoring the radical artists who shaped Australia's creative revolution.
Margaret Wein wept when she saw her great-great-grandfather's face for the first time in a crayon drawing created 80 years ago. A team of researchers just reunited 810 secret Aboriginal artworks with descendants across the Australian desert, rewriting art history in the process.
Wayne Coolwell spent five decades capturing Indigenous Australian life through his camera lens, and now his stunning photo archive is showing the world what he saw. The State Library of Queensland is celebrating the late broadcaster's visual legacy starting Saturday.
A coal steamer that sank off Australia in 1877 has finally been found—thanks to modern renewable energy surveys. Divers searched for decades, but offshore wind farm mapping revealed what 149 years couldn't.
Divers searching for a clean energy site discovered a legendary 1877 shipwreck that had eluded searchers for nearly 150 years. The City of Hobart, carrying coal when it sank off Australia's coast, was found thanks to offshore wind farm planning.
Australia's oldest concrete lighthouse has been relit after three decades of darkness, guiding boats home with four beams of light just as it did in 1883. The Green Cape Lighthouse near Eden proves that sometimes the best path forward is going back to our roots.
The first flight carrying 200 Australians stranded in the Middle East has departed Dubai for Sydney as the government deploys six crisis teams to help bring thousands more home. It's the largest consular effort in Australian history.
An Indigenous Australian snowboarder will break barriers at the 2026 Winter Paralympics, becoming the first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander athlete to compete in the Winter Paralympic Games. --- ##
What began as a brave protest for equality in 1978 has transformed into one of the world's most joyful celebrations of LGBTQIA+ pride. Sydney's Mardi Gras parade returns this Saturday, honoring decades of progress and the activists who made it possible.
A coastal Australian town just unveiled a statue honoring Edith Cowan, who broke barriers as the nation's first woman elected to parliament in 1921. After three years of fundraising, volunteers raised $120,000 to bring their hometown hero back to Geraldton.
Dame Marie Bashir, who broke barriers as New South Wales' first female governor and spent decades championing mental health care, has died at 95. Her extraordinary life touched thousands through her work in psychiatry, advocacy for marginalized communities, and unwavering commitment to treating everyone with dignity.
A Melbourne artist has spent two years traveling across Victoria restoring colonial-era pillar boxes, often dressed in period costume. What started as an impulse to remove graffiti has become a quest to save nearly 200 pieces of Australian history.