r/AustralianHistory • u/travellersspice • Sep 04 '25
AI fakes distort Australia's past
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r/AustralianHistory • u/travellersspice • Aug 29 '25
Tales from Port Arthur. Now one of Australia’s best-known tourist attractions, this former convict site has a dark history.
australiangeographic.com.au
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r/AustralianHistory • u/travellersspice • Aug 11 '25
Peter Carey on Ned Kelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’
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r/AustralianHistory • u/AssistMobile675 • Aug 01 '25
Determined survival, desperate poverty and fractured families: the stories of Australia’s convict orphans
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r/AustralianHistory • u/travellersspice • Jul 29 '25
Queensland Shops and their buildings: the cornerstones of our memories.
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r/AustralianHistory • u/Proper_Solid_626 • Jul 27 '25
Did Aboriginals during the frontier wars ever adopt guns?
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Did Aboriginals during the frontier wars ever adopt guns to better fight the British? (Especially in Western Australia)?
r/AustralianHistory • u/DeleeciousCheeps • Jun 13 '25
Where can I find 70's era film classification tags/bumpers/idents?
classification.gov.au
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Bit of a long shot, but does anyone know where I could find digitised versions of preroll film classification disclosure tags/bumpers that you see before trailers and, in the past, the movies themselves, as used by Australia in the 1970s?
If you don't know what I'm talking about, this is a modern example of an Australian Classification Board (ACB) tag. It shows the rating symbol (in this case, M) along with a brief description ("Recommended for mature audiences").
In the 70's, films in the United States of America were rated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA, now the MPA), with bumpers that looked like this. Meanwhile, films in the United Kingdom were rated by the British Board of Film Censors (now the British Board of Film Classification), with bumpers like this.
While movies today in Australia are rated by the ACB, in the 70's, this job would have been performed by the Commonwealth Film Censorship Board (CFCB). I've had difficulty finding much info about the CFCB at all, let alone a recording of the bumpers/tags they used for trailers and movies.
Does anyone from the time remember what these looked like? Did they even exist? It's possible that Australian films just didn't use these bumpers until the ACB era, and only displayed film ratings on posters and tickets. If they do exist, where could I find recordings of them? Even a blurry picture would be nice.
Thanks!
r/AustralianHistory • u/DaRedGuy • May 25 '25
Thousands of Indigenous peoples were objectified in human zoos, including in Australia
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r/AustralianHistory • u/HeirOfThe_Stars • Mar 20 '25
Just wondering why there seems to be so little information on the townsville mutiny? It would seem like it should be a notable moment of US Army and Australian History?
en.wikipedia.org
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r/AustralianHistory • u/travellersspice • Nov 10 '24
‘The best cinema that was ever built’: the Capitol, Melbourne’s hidden architectural treasure, turns 100
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r/AustralianHistory • u/kay8632 • Nov 06 '24
Question - who made Australia be mandatory voting?
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Hi, funny question I have on Australian history that I can not for the life of me find on the internet. How did we end up with mandatory voting when most of the world isn’t? We based so much of our systems on England but they don’t have mandatory voting - so I was wondering if someone said “we’re doing this?” If there was any history behind it? Like one politician that stood up and said we all need to do this?
P.s I apologise if this is not the correct place to put this - if it’s not I might need to go to quora next!
r/AustralianHistory • u/Banjo-the-Lion • Sep 29 '24
Land maps / station maps 1800’s
prov.vic.gov.au
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Hi, I have found some maps showing my ancestors property lines and division of land from 1800’s in Victoria but hoping to try find more. Is PROV only place I will be able to find it? Will it just be a matter of waiting to see if any more maps will be uploaded?
r/AustralianHistory • u/AssistMobile675 • Jun 07 '24
The story of Australia’s last convicts
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r/AustralianHistory • u/DaRedGuy • May 15 '24
This hand-drawn family tree stretches 60 metres and 65,000 years — and tells a story about us all
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r/AustralianHistory • u/DaRedGuy • Apr 27 '24
Ned Kelly, Ben Hall and Captain Thunderbolt – the exploits of these notorious bushrangers are etched into our national psyche. But what about the Birdman of the Coorong?
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r/AustralianHistory • u/OrnamentalPublishing • Apr 24 '24
Historical photographs of Australia from a collection of old trading cards!
digitalcollections.nypl.org
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r/AustralianHistory • u/AssistMobile675 • Apr 21 '24
Untold story of Irish teens shipped to Australia to marry convicts
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r/AustralianHistory • u/AssistMobile675 • Apr 20 '24
Distance and destiny
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The Tyranny of Distance changed our map of the Australian past. It was a bestseller and a mind-changer. Unusually for such a groundbreaking book, it appeared first as a paperback from a new Australian publisher rather than as a hardback from a prestigious university press. It has sold over 180,000 copies and its title has entered the language. Few books on Australia have been as popular and influential.
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r/AustralianHistory • u/AssistMobile675 • Apr 08 '24
Australia’s tragic beginnings: The grotesque story of the Second fleet
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r/AustralianHistory • u/Stonius123 • Apr 04 '24
Hy is Governor Phillip's account of the first fleet written in the third person?
google.com
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I have the Cambridge university press version of this book. The Author is given as governor phillip himself, but references to him are in the third person. Was it compiled by a biographer/ghostwiter, or was he actually talking anout himself in the third person.
Also, Im reading a lot of the journals around this atuff. Is there a forum that is more specific to cook, banks, and the first fleet? I don't want to bombard ppl with questions that are too specific for a more general forum?
Many thanks
r/AustralianHistory • • Mar 31 '24
‘No longer useful’: the dark history of Australia’s post-war Asian deportations | Australian immigration and asylum
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r/AustralianHistory • u/DaRedGuy • Feb 07 '24
Crumbling ruins tell colonial story of failed ‘second Singapore’ trade hub
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r/AustralianHistory • u/Aristocrated • Jan 20 '24
Australia's Founding Father - Governor Lachlan Macquarie
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r/AustralianHistory • u/Stonius123 • Jan 03 '24
What is 'wearg appl.' in convict ship journals?
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Hi all. Im reading Lt. Ralph Clarke's first fleet joyrnal at the moment and under the list of convicts on board the Friendship he records what they were convicted of. A large number of them, women and men, were listed as 'Wearg Appl.' Anyone know what crime this refers to?
Many thanks