australian history
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This Interactive Map Shows The History Of Australia’s Colonial Massacres
With 26 January approaching it’s a good time to brush up on your history of Australia’s colonisation and how that affected the Indigenous inhabitants. This useful interactive map goes a long way to help show the devastating toll of massacres by British colonisers. In 2019, the University of Newcastle’s Lyndall Ryan led a project compiling…
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CIA Refuses To Release Reports On Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, I’ve received CIA biographic reports on both the former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the man who controversially ousted him in 1975, John Kerr. But there’s one guy involved in “The Dismissal” that the CIA won’t release files on: Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, the man who…