Austerity crippled Australian culture during and beyond World War II, but the national mood turned optimistic after the Allied victories in 1945,

After Australian troops returned from the hellfires across Europe, the nation yearned for peace in the Pacific. The government accelerated strategies

After the declaration of Federation and Queen Victoria’s death in January 1901, Australian culture entered its Edwardian decade. This was characterised

Queen Victoria’s last two decades were a hiatus in the economic and architectural development of Australia. The 1880s were Britain’s glorious years of

Australia swelled with great wealth during the goldrushes that began in rural Victoria and New South Wales in 1851. These induced a mass exodus of

Mid-10th century architects tended to react against the simplicity and strict symmetry of Georgian architecture. Contradicting the more pretentious