History

News One of Grafton's oldest buildings has an intriguing history. Go behind the ornate 1800s doors and bullet-ridden walls in The Daily Examiner's exclusive tour

Offbeat HE was for a while one of the nation’s most promising politicians but Thomas Ley’s fall would end with him convicted of murder and sentenced to hang.

Education WHEN officials entered this abandoned KFC restaurant in America, they were finger-lickin surprised at what they discovered.

News AUGUST 18 is a date in Lieutenant Colonel Harry Smith's life that he can't turn his back on, but neither will he celebrate it.

Offbeat 'The fact that they were old and not digital was what attracted me to them'

Offbeat Teacher finds rare fossilised teeth from 25 million-year-old prehistoric mega-shark at the beach.

News AN HISTORIC Coast motel is in its final days before being demolished next week for townhouses.

Feature YES, we know, you can’t exist without taking your phone everywhere. So imagine a time when it was stuck to the wall. Here’s what life was like before smartphones...

Education 104-year-old Linda Paddon’s early life reads like an adventure novel, with torpedoed ships, WWI bombing raids and even a link to the ill-fated Titanic.

Lifestyle PLAY-DOH was first manufactured in the 1930s as a wallpaper cleaner before being rebranded into a children’s toy.

Offbeat The group took 1.5 hours to reach Rockhampton from Mt Morgan .... It was a long trip from there to Mackay.

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Offbeat VIRAL search for a mysterious couple captured in a portrait reached all the way up to north Queensland to come to an incredible conclusion.

Lifestyle FORGET using a calculator or jumping on the internet. This exam from 106 years ago may have you baffled — so how many questions can you get right?

Religion & Spirituality THE “greatest story ever told” had a few pivotal figures whose significance have been all but wiped from the record, for one reason.

Business IF you don’t remember him you’ll remember his ads. “Big John” Zupp, the man who would trade in “any old iron”, was once a household name. So where is he now?

News HUMAN remains found on a Brookstead property have been dated back to before the region's European settlement.

Offbeat A POOL of murky, red liquid found around three mummies in an Egyptian sarcophagus has been analysed by scientists.

Offbeat A DIVIDING line at the heart of Australia has its roots in an old world order, and was signed off by the pope in 1494.

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News A HISTORIAN has painted a completely different version of Australia’s history - and it is causing huge shockwaves.

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News THE community wants to be able to identify and document to physical location of burials.