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James Scullin was the manager of a small grocery store who continued to educate himself, and then became a union organiser.
He was elected to Commonwealth Parliament in 1910, lost his seat in 1913,...
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During the First World War Australian soldiers fought on the Western Front. This was Australia’s main war involvement, far bigger than the fighting at Gallipoli in 1915.
Australians fought in the...
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Andrew Fisher’s tin lunch box reminds us that humble beginnings informed his formidable political career.
Leaving school at ten, he was a coal miner throughout his teens, and migrated to Australia...
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One of the most highly regarded of Australia’s Prime Ministers, Ben Chifley was a former train driver with a voice like worn-out boot leather. He was well aware that his image as the typical bloke...
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce was born into a wealthy commercial family. He was an outstanding athlete at school and later Cambridge University, where he qualified as a barrister.
He was in England when...
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Why would a Rolls Royce imported to Australia as an official vehicle for Queen Elizabeth's 1970 visit end up as a rally car?
Warren Brown visits the Fox Classic Car Collection in Melbourne to find...
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Most Australians know that Banjo Paterson wrote the lyrics to 'Waltzing Matilda' but who wrote the music?
And what does it have to do with a rather oddly titled song called 'Go to the Devil and Shake...
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One of the most poignant objects in the Australian War Memorial is the battered survivor of our worst-ever naval disaster. What happened to this liferaft and why is it so special?
Warren Brown talks...
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In countless contemporary re-creations, convict clothing is patterned with lots of thick black arrows, but is that what convicts really wore?
Curator Bridget Berry shows Warren Brown a 160-year-old...
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If you were to nominate one painting as Australia’s greatest, what would it be?
Curator Barry Pearce of the Art Gallery of New South Wales explains why Tom Roberts’ Bailed Up would be a contender....