It's 10 o'clock in the morning and the scent of whiskey mingles with the fragrance of fear, desperation and anger still embedded into the institutional-yellow walls of the Old Melbourne Gaol.

You know those icebreaker activities where you must summon a fun fact? (Cue panic-inducing sweats as you struggle to think of something “fun”.) Well, mine is that my great-great-great grandmother was ...

A plaque at the property notes its place in history. More than a year later ... Ned was hanged at the Old Melbourne Gaol after being found guilty of Lonigan’s murder, in 1880.

Nestled in the heart of Footscray in Melbourne's inner-west sits a trove of African art, literature and history. Its founder ...

But it was 21-year-old Lachlan Kennedy who spoiled the party ... “He can be one of the best in the history books if he continues with the hunger that he has right now,” Tebogo said.

Waanyi author Alexis Wright has won the $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature ... The win caps off a banner year for 73-year-old Wright, who also won the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin ...

The title featured a masked lawman fighting outlaws and Indians in an Old ... books were, after all, already under threat before his arrest. In 1953, creators in both Australia and America were ...