Karen Fox works as a research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is Australia’s largest and longest-running social sciences and humanities ...

"What Australia suffers from is not a lack of artists," says art historian Bernard Smith, "but a lack of audience for their art." It's an intriguing idea, and one which may well be right. The ...

I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet and I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging.It is a great ...

The launch of the first Australian National Dictionary in decades is set to highlight changes in the English language specific to Australia. The dictionary also explains just how each of the thousands ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Albert Namatjira became the most talked-about Aboriginal person of the 20th century. This was not only because his watercolour paintings ...

Malcolm Allbrook works for the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University. The Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography is part-funded by the Australian Research ...

The Mad Scientist of Australian Hot Rodding: Rod Hadfield is the title of the new book penned by Rod's Daughter, Allison Hadfield. Available July 2018 it's billed as, "The first comprehensive ...

Fred Pawle, the author of 'Die Laughing: The Biography of Bill Leak', says the Australian cartoonist lived a "quintessential Australian life". "He achieved an enormous amount, he was a great raconteur ...

Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani has been awarded the 2019 National Biography Award worth $25,000 for his book No Friend But the Mountains - and he's accepted it from Manus Island via Whatsapp. A ...

Chunks of masonry are missing. Bullet holes scar the walls. This is the result of German heavy infantry weapons being deployed in 1940 to dislodge the French defenders of the memorial during World War ...

Priscilla Hon shook the tennis world after a stunning comeback against two-time grand slam title-winning Petra Kvitova at the Adelaide International on Monday, winning a 27-shot rally in the process.