Few of us know that hundreds of Australians fought and suffered in the British Royal Navy in World War II,only to be largely left out of their nation’s war history – until now.
Accused of one of the most high-profile murder cases in Victoria,Patterson sits content as justice moves glacially around her.
In the 1970s,the Sunbury festival celebrated rock music and youthful indulgence. On the weekend,the crowd returned. This time their clothes stayed on.
They are the innocents,and it is never their fight. But it is the children of conflict who always suffer the most.
Truth has been a stranger to wars of the past,and remains alien to current wars.
Suzannah Henty,a sixth-generation descendant of squatter James Henty,said her family had “enslaved” Indigenous people in south-west Victoria.
Sergi Andrijenko doesn’t use the word celebrate when he talks about turning 100. Nor does he thank God for his long life. “I wouldn’t want anyone to have a life like mine.”
Brant Webb is one of two men saved from the Beaconsfield goldmine disaster of 2006 and urged Ballarat mine survivors to share their deepest fears and feelings with loved ones.
The list of executions associated with Victoria’s fruit and vegetable markets is long,but memories are short when the police ask questions.
There’s one born every minute,and the scammers of the internet know it better than anyone.
The quirky Moomba event – in which amateur aviators fling themselves off a platform on the Yarra – boasts a venerable history of lunacy. But Melbourne wasn’t the first city to dive in.