Michelle Arrow is professor of history at Macquarie University and president of the Australian Historical Association.
Gough Whitlam’s policies transformed many women’s lives. His legacy lives on.
Both take on frontier violence and the challenge of finding drama in a foundational moment that many Australians don’t appreciate.
With part-time jobs, fewer lectures and long commutes, many university students are weighing up whether it’s worth turning up to class.
Maintenance work on the National Library’s roof will prevent public access to historical treasures, but it exposes something deeper - a failure of successive governments to value our cultural heritage.
If Australia does not preserve its audio-visual heritage, no one else in the world will.