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TweetTOP 10 IA STORIES OF 2011 Japan and Australia enjoy a very close relationship these days, but this was not always the case — especially after the large number of well-documented allegations of Japanese mistreatment of Australian POWs...
TweetIn a stunning Independent Australia exclusive, Brad Webb from Iron Outlaw looks at the history and discusses the implications surrounding the identification of Ned Kelly’s headless skeleton last week — then reveals the whereabouts of...
Tweet Why were the Japanese so brutal in World War 2, especially towards prisoners? Brad Webb looks at the historical, political, social and cultural factors to try to come to an understanding. Up until the nineteenth century Japan was governed...
Tweet Australian national identity has changed from the mid-1940s with the advent of mass-immigration, writes Richard White in ‘Inventing Australia’. Brad Webb considers White’s arguments. Richard White’s thesis, Inventing...
Tweetby Australian historian Brad Webb In the early nineteenth century, Britain embarked on a social engineering scheme that saw Australia become the first colony to build a society on the labour of convicted felons. With growing poverty and...
Tweet Brad Webb writes that when reviewing the history of the Australian Labor Party, the month of November has seen monumental changes in the party’s fortunes. With the crisis of November 11, 1975 foremost in the minds of many Labor supporters,...
Tweet Australia has never had an equivalent of New Zealand’s founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, says Brad Webb. Here, aboriginal dispossession equated to British sovereignty. NEW ZEALAND’S founding document, the Treaty of...
Tweet Brad Webb says that the early push for an Australian republic stalled because Federation was the easier and more palatable option for most Australians. by Brad Webb IN A RECENT ABC documentary, Paul Keating, speaking with Paul Kelly in...
Tweet Brad Webb Only by a true recognition of indigenous Australians’ rights and grievances will Australia be able to become a fully unified nation, says Brad Webb. IN MANY WAYS, aboriginality challenges the notion of a unified national...
Tweet Thomas Keneally writes a passionate, thoughtful and easily readable history of Australian republicanism in the book, Our Republic, says Brad Webb. Prominent Australian writer and republican, Thomas Kenneally FOR THE PAST century and...
