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| UpdatedAn enormous cache of historical documents detailing the reign of King George III, who suffered from a rare blood disorder giving him symptoms considered to be signs of insanity, will go online as part of the Royal family's effort to rehabilitate his legacy.
Topics: history, royal-and-imperial-matters, england, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedAn historical documentary featuring the Indigenous community on Palm Island in far north Queensland will shed light on a relatively unknown aspect of Australia's colonisation where Aboriginal people were stolen, stripped and exhibited as attractions in a human zoo.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, colonialism, history, film-movies, documentary, arts-and-entertainment, palm-island-4815, australia
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| UpdatedTasmania will have a new place to showcase maritime treasures if locals on Lady Barron Island, located in an area notorious among seafarers, have their way.
Topics: rural, history, cape-barren-island-7257
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Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, zoos, colonialism, history, film-movies, australia, palm-island-4815
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Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, zoos, colonialism, history, film-movies, australia, palm-island-4815
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| UpdatedDozens of elderly Auschwitz survivors place wreaths and flowers at the infamous execution wall of the former German death camp, as Germany's Foreign Minister calls for history to be a "lesson and warning".
Topics: world-war-2, history, poland, germany
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| UpdatedQueensland's iconic Big Pineapple site is set to be redeveloped as its new owners look to attract different audiences.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, human-interest, offbeat, lifestyle-and-leisure, community-and-society, history, woombye-4559
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More than 100 ancient Assyrian and early Islamic artefacts are discovered in an Islamic State safe house on the recently recaptured Left Bank of Mosul in Iraq.
Topics: archaeology, history, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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Facing online sales and changing consumer culture, Myer employees in Orange, New South Wales, are preparing for the store's final days.
Topics: unemployment, history, regional, community-and-society, work, relationships, orange-2800, bathurst-2795
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Topics: world-war-2, history, unrest-conflict-and-war, veterans, defence-and-national-security, japan
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Ninety-seven-year-old Australian war veteran Jack Hopgood, who considers himself "one of the lucky ones", returns to Japan to confront his memories as a prisoner of war during WWII.
Topics: world-war-2, history, unrest-conflict-and-war, veterans, defence-and-national-security, japan
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Topics: world-war-2, history, unrest-conflict-and-war, veterans, defence-and-national-security, japan
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| UpdatedAustralian history is full of great moments, which could serve as alternative dates for Australia Day, including April 7, when the most Australian movie ever made — The Castle — was released, writes Ben Pobjie.
Topics: federation, history, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, national-days, offbeat, australia-day, australia
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull and Barnaby Joyce are among Government figures to dismiss calls to change the date of Australia Day, despite comments by the Prime Minister's Indigenous advisor and a former cabinet minister.
Topics: community-and-society, national-days, australia-day, history, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedIf you wouldn't celebrate the September 11 attack on the twin towers, why would you celebrate Australia Day on January 26? That is the question being asked by a new Invasion Day ad campaign inspired by a famous anti-piracy campaign from the 2000s.
Topics: community-and-society, national-days, australia-day, history, government-and-politics, australia
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Topics: gardening, tourism, history, canberra-2600
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Soils trampled by thousands of troops that left to fight in World War One from South Australia will feature in a new memorial garden project at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Topics: veterans, history, world-war-1, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa, canberra-2600