In the closing years of World War II, more than 500 Australian and New Zealand POWs risked capture — and death — by fleeing ...

Harry Neal, who turns 100 this weekend, manned an artillery gun on the Hawkesbury to protect against the threat of a Japanese submarine invasion.

But he then shuts his eyes. Surely we can learn – and he can learn – from the crisis Australia faced in World War II. That crisis, at its depth, was not only alarming for the government in ...

Thousands of people have gathered at a military state funeral in Perth, to commemorate the life and service of a 106-year-old Anzac hero.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was on track to lead his party to its biggest election victory since World War II, giving him a strong mandate to tackle much-needed economic reform ...

The Emu War: A surreal showdown Following World War I, the Australian government sought to settle more than 5,000 soldiers turned farmers in the westernmost state of Australia. However, the region ...

The event marks the disastrous 1915 landing of British, Australian and New Zealand troops in Gallipoli in the midst of World War I, the first time the imperialist powers plunged humanity into a ...

WWII veteran Howard Hendrick sought a quiet ... A cunning bomber pilot in the Australian air force, he left his family’s Loxton fruit block and enlisted on Anzac Day in 1941 – returning ...

in an ill-fated campaign that was the soldiers' first combat of World War I. It is considered Australia’s most unifying national holiday and a sacred day when political point-scoring and protest ...

(Bloomberg) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was on track to lead his party to its biggest election victory since World War II, giving him a strong mandate to tackle much-needed economic ...