History

This week marks 60 years since one of Australia's biggest mineral discoveries put Kambalda on the map. But now all the WA town's nickel mines have closed and the prospect of a future restart is unclear.

The artists of Mimili, in the APY Lands of South Australia, are using new methods to share crucial knowledge of Country and culture, including repurposed car parts.

A New South Wales grocery store has been operating since before there was refrigeration, electricity and even Vegemite.

After initially waking in a "cold sweat" over the enormity of what he had taken on, Ironbank's Glen Smythe can finally relax after finishing his homemade locomotive — although he still has the boiler to build.  

Sabina Kleitman grew up knowing little about how her father survived the Holocaust as a child. Now she sees parallels between the horrors of World War II and his death at Bondi.

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy.

A baggy green cap worn by Don Bradman in the 1947-48 series against India has been sold for $460,000 at auction.

Politician Frank Pangallo is calling for a permanent memorial to be installed at an Adelaide beach to acknowledge the disappearance of the Beaumont children in 1966.

The National Film and Sound Archive has released 4K restorations of the 1960s film series Life in Australia, commissioned by the Department of Immigration to attract new migrants to regional Australia.

Home to migratory sea birds, seals and penguins, the history of Wollongong's five islands goes back well beyond Bass and Flinders. 

Who was David Letterman's first guest on the Late Night show? Who celebrates Republic Day today?

I had been trawling absent-mindedly through the ABC's internal digital archive in a vague search for inspiration and clicked on this file called "Letters to the Unborn" at random.

Country music star Troy Cassar-Daley didn't know anything about First Nations warrior Windradyne. But once he learned more, he was determined to sing his story home.

Compilation of 19 letters written by prominent Adelaideans in 1959 as part of an ABC project to write letters to the future.

Tasmanian Dave Wellington and two of his mates were just 18 when they ran away with the Great Moscow Circus back when it was owned by the Soviet Union.

Darwin is home to the largest Kalymnian expat community in the world and my family is part of it. Last year, I travelled to Greece to explore this slice of the Top End's migration history.

Nestled among shanty homes, mountains and forestry, a giant building once touted to become Venezuela's world-leading retail mecca later turned into a centre for alleged human rights abuses.

Invasion Day rallies will go ahead on Monday after being exempted from NSW protest bans. Here's the story of how they started in the first place.

On this day in 1998, Venus and Serena Williams faced off for the first time at a Grand Slam tournament, starting an iconic sibling rivalry that would last two decades. 

The pair had made an on-the-spot decision on the way home from their honeymoon to visit a drive-through safari park where lions roamed free — and their little brown Datsun came out worse for wear.