* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

* 1908 – Rica Erickson, Australian artist, historian, and author ( d. 2009 )

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Geelong had always been particularly subject to what Geoffrey Blainey, a notable Australian historian, author of A Game of Our Own, and Geelong supporter, termed the " tyranny of distance ".

Cricket historian David Frith believed it is possible that the abrasive Australian captain Warwick Armstrong could have addressed sarcastic comments to Jardine but Wisden believed his slow approach cost him his century.

The Australian historian Professor David Day has suggested that Menzies might have replaced Churchill as British Prime Minister, and that he had some support in Britain for this.

Australian historian Robert Manne suggests " approximately 20, 000 to 25, 000 " were removed between 1910 and 1970, based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics report of 1994.

According to music historian, Ian McFarlane " made an enormous impact on Australian social life ".

Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

Australian music historian, Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

* September 20 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian ( b. 1897 )

* March 16 – Flora Eldershaw, Australian novelist, critic, and historian ( d. 1956 )

Australian historian David McKnight wrote that the IWW was controlled by the Comintern.

In 2008, Australian historian Peter Forrest claimed that the widespread belief that Paterson had penned the ballad as a socialist anthem, inspired by the Great Shearers ' Strike, was false and a " misappropriation " by political groups.

Paul John Kelly ( born 11 October 1947 ) is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney.

The significance of Fischer's discovery, as the Australian historian John Moses has noted, is that the goal of winning Lebensraum was already in German thinking long before 1933 and thus cannot be seen, as some German historians have argued, as solely Adolf Hitler's personal brain-child.

* Henry Reynolds, Australian historian

Australian architectural historian John James, who made a detailed study of the cathedral, has estimated that there were about 300 men working on the site at any one time, although it has to be acknowledged that our knowledge of working practices at this time is somewhat limited.

Some confusion has been caused by a letter that Popkin wrote, in 1935, to an Australian official historian.

* John Cyril Cato ( born 1889, died 1971 ), Australian photographer, portraitist and author, renowned historian of Australian photography, known also as Jack Cato

* Allan Bromley ( historian ) ( 1947 – 2002 ), an Australian historian of computing

In an interview with Australian radio in July 1995, Irving claimed that at least four million Jews died in World War II, through he argued that this was due to terrible sanitary conditions inside the concentration camps as opposed to a delibrate policy of genocide in the death camps.

' * The historian of genocide, Ben Kiernan, who classifies the fate of aborigines as an example of the practice, situates Windschuttle's polemical history within a new campaign, led by Quadrant, but taken up by a ' chorus of right-wing columnists ' within the Australian mass media with a record of antagonism to both Aborigines and their ' leftist ' supporters.

Australian Aboriginal History :" The history of the Aboriginal people of Australia since European settlement is that they have been the subject of unprovoked aggression, conquest, pillage, rape, brutalization, attempted genocide and systematic and unsystematic destruction of their culture … a law aimed at the preservation, or the uncovering, of evidence about their history is a special law with respect to the people of this race.

He said that as an Australian, Hughes should remember how his country had oppressed its Aborigine population to the point of genocide and had denied voting rights to many of them as recently as 1967.

Among scholars specializing in Australian history much recent debate has focused on whether indeed what happened to groups of Aborigines, and especially the Tasmanian Aborigines during the European colonisation of Australia can be classified as genocide.

Janine Roberts has argued that genocide was Australian policy, if only by emission, noting that despite contemporary newspapers regularly decrying " the barbarous crop of exterminators " and " a system of native slaughter ... merciless and complete ", the government contended that " no illegal acts were occurring ", with the worst incidents being described as merely " indiscretions ".

Minogue does not try to define genocide but argues that its use is an extreme manifestation of the guilt felt by modern Australian society about the past misconduct of their society to Aborigines.

In his opinion its use reflects the process by which Australian society is trying to come to terms with its past wrongs and in doing this Australians are stretching the meaning of genocide to fit within this internal debate.

In 2006 columnist Miranda Devine described some of the Braille messages encoded on the external structure of the NMA, including " sorry " and " forgive us our genocide " and how they had been covered over by aluminium discs in 2001, and stated that under the new Director " what he calls the ' black T-shirt ' view of Australian culture " is being replaced by " systematically reworking the collections, with attention to ' scrupulous historical accuracy '".

* Ben Darwin ( born 1976 ), Australian international Rugby player

* 1989 – Ben Schumann, Australian actor

* 1936 – Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer

* 1975 – Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player

* 1969 – Ben Oxenbould, Australian actor

* 1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian musician ( Silverchair )

* 1978 – Ben Lee, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( Noise Addict, The Bens, and Gerling )

** Ben Smith, Australian rugby league player

** Ben Cousins, Australian rules footballer

** Ben Lee, Australian singer

* May 20 – Australian Bushranger Ben Hall and his gang escape from a shootout with police after attempting to rob the Bang Bang Hotel in Koorawatha, New South Wales.

* Ben Hall and his gang were the subject of several Australian folk songs, including " Streets of Forbes ".

* Ben Johnson ( cricketer ) ( born 1973 ), Australian cricketer

* Ben Johnson ( footballer ) ( born 1981 ), Australian rules footballer

Strong box office performances were recorded in 2009-10 by Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer ; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began ; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom which featured major Australian screen stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver.

* Ben Mendelsohn ( born 1969 ), Australian actor and musician

* Australian singer Ben Lee sings about a girl at a concert in Pomona telling him about the Santa Ana Winds in his 2005 single " Catch My Disease.

The Ben Lomond National Park is located in the northeast of the Australian state of Tasmania, about 50 km east of Launceston.

Episodes of the BBC World documentary television series Peschardt's People have been filmed in Fremantle, including an episode with Australian actress Toni Collette and another with Fremantle-based English comedian Ben Elton.

Wake stood as a Liberal candidate in the 1949 Australian federal election for the Sydney seat of Barton, running against Dr. Herbert Evatt, then Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs in the Ben Chifley Labor government.

* Ben Harrison ( Australian footballer ), Carlton, Richmond and Western Bulldogs player

Arthur Augustus Calwell ( 28 August 1896 – 8 July 1973 ) Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years from 1940 to 1972, Immigration Minister in the government of Ben Chifley from 1945 to 1949 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967.

The Australian National University was established by an act of the Parliament of Australia, introduced by the then Prime Minister Ben Chifley and the Minister for Post-war Reconstruction J. J. Dedman with support of the Opposition Leader Robert Menzies.