It might not be something you'd want to do at night... but a self-guided tour of the Hughenden cemetery with its elaborate historic headstones could be an enjoyable history lesson by day. It will also give you an insight into the lives of the people who are buried there. ...

Built in 1917, Duncraigan house hosted garden parties for the social elite of Townsville until it was comandeered by US forces during the Second World War....

Once "the most splendid house in Townsville", Duncragan House perched on top of Melton Hill in Townsville has been neglected for several years. But now James Cook University and Mission Australia have joined forces to restore the historic mansion as part of a work for the dole program. ...

Some of the world's best ever rugby league players have been selected in the North Queensland Team of the Century. The North has a proud record in the game and none more so then after defeating the touring Great Britain side of 1966 with many players from that era entering folklore. ...

An important part of North Queensland's history was almost forgotten in the history books. When journalist Eugenie Navarre discovered north Queensland's rich cane history, including the people and the barracks (their homes), she felt compelled to record it in a book for future generations. ...

Hans Post was in the Nazi SS, and at the end of the Second World War lied about his war history in order to avoid prosecution. He was imprisoned in the French prisoner of war camp Thoree le Pins. There he witnessed suicide and starvation and emerged after 6 months weighing only 78 pounds. He found his ...

From 1907 until 1959 there was a Lazaret -- a Leprosarium -- on Peel Island, in Moreton Bay, just off Brisbane. There were lazarets all around the country, in every state, following a public health policy of exclusion...and fear. The stories from these places are not as well known as they might be, ...

As the two major political parties struggle to win favour with the independents in federal parliament, Rear Vision takes a look back at the role independents have played in Australia's political history....

It's a place that sends a shiver down a nation's spine, chills its soul and has a people in absolutely no doubt that history does repeat and that lightning indeed strikes twice, in one place. A place called Katyn. It was in this starkly striking forest that 22,000 of Poland's leading lights were ...

It's a place that sends a shiver down a nation's spine, chills its soul and has a people in absolutely no doubt that history does repeat and that lightning indeed strikes twice, in one place. A place called Katyn. It was in this starkly striking forest that 22,000 of Poland's leading lights were ...