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A restored portable cottage now on display reveals how workers and families constantly moved across Australia's biggest engineering project. These tiny homes were trucked from site to site with dishes still in the cupboards and clothes in the wardrobes.
A daughter discovered lost photographs in her parents' attic revealing a forgotten 1946 Aboriginal workers' strike that helped launch Australia's Indigenous rights movement. The images, hidden for decades, show the courage of hundreds who walked off pastoral stations and built their own independent communities.
A regional Australian city celebrated community leader Russell Jack with a traditional white mourning lion ceremony not seen in living memory. The rare funeral honors a man who spent 30 years preserving Chinese heritage and quietly changing young lives.
A regional Australian city will revive a rare 100-year-old Chinese mourning tradition to honor the man who preserved their heritage. Russell Jack's funeral brings ancient customs back to the goldfields where they first arrived.
A family researching their heritage home discovered it was ground zero for Australia's first commercial orange farm and a refuge for Jewish migrants fleeing Nazi persecution. Their quest to preserve the property's stories is bringing generations of history back to life.
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.
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.