The liberation of Auschwitz is being commemorated in the shadow of rising antisemitism in Australia and globally.

The Australian low-ranked seaman suffered a serious shrapnel wound to the head which killed him immediately or shortly thereafter. One of the greatest mysteries of World War II in the Pacific ...

For years, the question of whether to move Australia Day to a less contentious date has loomed over the festivities.

Australia has a sandcastle culture, according to Jim Davidson, one-time editor of Meanjin. His point: we suffer from cultural ...

The Australian flag can evoke a range of feelings from pride and camaraderie to exclusion and division. Here are some reasons ...

His comments coincide with the National Archive of Australia’s release of a tranche of 2004 cabinet records, which reflect deliberations around Australia’s ongoing commitment to the conflict.

In Australia, defence spending in 2013 under the Gillard government fell to its lowest level since 1938 – the year before World War II broke out – reaching 1.59 per cent of gross domestic product.

After Nazi Germany’s murder of six million Jewish people in the Holocaust in World War II, thousands of Holocaust survivors ...