History

After almost 130 years, the remains of an Aboriginal man have made the long journey home from Oxford University to be reburied on the Country from where he was taken at Berowra Creek in Sydney.

Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually be made available for the public to play at a special exhibition.

In the Pilbara town of Roebourne the name of many streets haunt residents as they are named after perpetrators of a massacre which decimated the Yaburara tribe 160 years ago.

The family of a former NSW Police detective says while his job was to ensure the safety of foreign leaders, at home he was just Dad.  

When Oxford-educated Helen Fielding introduced readers to Bridget Jones in her newspaper column, in her own words, she was "quite embarrassed". Three decades later, the book has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

A royal family photo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Australia's first inland city.

Southern Ocean Explorers divers have uncovered the shipwreck of the City of Hobart steamliner, which sank in 1877.

A renewable energy company's search for an offshore wind farm site leads divers to the wreckage of the City of Hobart, which sank nearly 150 years ago off Victoria's east coast.

What started out as a wartime necessity was passed down from generation to generation, becoming a family relic now on display in the National Library.

Elizabeth Woolcock is recognised as the only woman ever to be hanged in SA. But researchers believe she was sent to the gallows in 1873 an innocent woman.

After standing idle for more than three decades, the first concrete lighthouse in Australia is glowing again on the NSW far south coast after being recommissioned.

Bipartisan support for the "global rules-based order" has all but disappeared in Australia. 

We're back with the second part of our test of your memory of some of the major events of the 2020s in pop culture, sport and world news. Your challenge is to pick which happened first.

Where was MH370 heading, which Australian won our first Oscar and what was the world's first vampire movie?

An oral history exhibition shares the lifetime stories of First Nations elders and their experiences at critical moments in Australian history. 

While wealthy upper-class colonial families were sitting for expensive studio portraits in the 1880s, many with less money were collecting miniature portraits in tiny photo albums like this one.

Ngaiawang language, once spoken frequently along the sweeping bend of the River Murray or the Rinta, was almost wiped out by colonisation.

The bones of a Queensland lighthouse keeper's wife were almost lost as a result of rising sea levels nearly 150 years after her death.

The National Trust faces a backlash after taking the reins of a major SA tourism destination — but says the decision was necessary to safeguard its future.

Australia's second statue of Edith Cowan is unveiled in her home town, Geraldton, 420 kilometres north of Perth.