History

The memory of champion racehorse will not be forgotten but his statue won't quite make full scale as a dedicated country turf club member pushes on with a hometown tribute.

Supporters say facadism helps preserve a building's history while making it accessible, cost-effective and better for the environment. To its detractors, it's "a very sad thing" that must be stamped out.

The ABC thought gardening would be a safe subject to test out talkback radio. Then a caller asked about marijuana plants.

Here are six times clothes, and the people who wore or designed them, helped forge the story of our country — for better and worse.

A man tells a BBC podcast he saw a young man "in full stride with this baby on his hip" back in 1970, with a former detective into the three-year-old's disappearance from a Wollongong beach calling for the claims to be investigated.

The crew survived what became the world's longest raft journey across 14,000 kilometres from Ecuador to the NSW North Coast.

Australian hatmaker, Akubra has been sold to the mining magnates by the Keir family, who owned the company for 147 years.

Why do I find the more absurd fashion trends so beguiling? I think it's their very absurdity, and the alternative reality they promise, when all else is grim, writes Virginia Trioli.

In Exquisite Corpse, award-winning Australian author Marija Peričić gives voice to the women caught up in a man's macabre obsession with a dead patient.

Wake in Fright received a frosty reception when it premiered to outback audiences, but a new documentary is giving insight into its rise to a well-regarded piece of Australian cinema history. 

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is notoriously difficult to adapt. But that hasn't stopped one Sydney theatre company staging a new production of the Russian literary masterpiece.

Between 1939 and 1996 the government hired dozens of photographers to document Australian life. Now many of their works of intimate nature photography, striking architectural shots and captured everyday memories are displayed in a new exhibition.

The northern NSW community of Laurieton is determined to refloat and restore a piece of their maritime history, with efforts underway to salvage a 60-year-old former pride of the fleet from the Camden Haven River.

Journalist Piia Wirsu grappled with retelling the traumatic story of the Blythe Star shipwreck. But deep within the disaster was an uplifting story of survival.

In 1939, Peter Sprinzels was one of more than 600 Czech children rescued by train — or "kindertransports" —  by a London stockbroker named Sir Nicholas Winton.

The children of lighthouse keepers who manned the Norah Head beacon in the 1900s say they want to make sure it's "here for everyone" in the future, as they return to the site for its milestone anniversary.

The Slip! Slop! Slap! jingle, I am Australian, Sherbet's Howzat and a harmonica recording from the 1920s are among 11 new recordings added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry.

The Slip Slop Slap campaign and Robyn Archer’s Menstruation Blues are among the 11 new sounds that have been added to the Sounds of Australia registry.

As the new owners of an old hydro-electric village, the Ottos wondered what they had done. But after two years and a lot of hard work, they're delighted to be bringing "a sense of community into a place that hasn't had it for a long time".

A pioneer who built cottages and subdivided land to create a South Australian riverside town has a plaque placed on his grave more than a century after his death.

Multimedia artist Roberta Joy Rich uses family memories and archival news footage to ask deep questions about the impact of apartheid policies in South Africa and Australia.

The National Trust has committed to ensuring the house is protected and restored for education about Mr Hawke's early years in Perth.

The Upton tractor transformed Australian agriculture and now holds a revered place in engineering history for its innovative design and pulling power. 

Traditional custodians and South Sea Islander elders gather to officially mark the removal of Ben Boyd's name from a national park on the NSW far-south coast.

Less than a century ago, Indigenous men were paid in small stone "coupons" for their work on cattle stations. Now, Mervyn Street has helped win those workers and their families landmark compensation.