Tales from the Grave

James Johnson miraculously survived Australia's worst peace time marine tragedy

The story of John Lees is one of redemption and hope.

She was known as the 'Witch of Kings Cross' and Rosaleen Norton confessed to a deep interest in and practice of the occult

The sun, and a few storm clouds, kept us company this afternoon on our quest for the story of Arthur Beaumont Goard.

Recently at Broken Head, near Byron Bay on the north-east coast of NSW, the little wooden church of St Oswalds held its final service

Celebrating the life of the writer behind Dad and Dave and the movie On Our Selection.

What do Australia's most famous portrait prize, the now defunct Bulletin magazine and Hyde Park fountain in the heart of Sydney all have...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains the name of an Indigenous Australian who has died.

Her articles on the health system in Victoria highlighted its shortcomings.

Early last year Tales wrote about the mystery of Somerton man. A case where the body of a man was discovered on Somerton beach on December 1

In 1865 police had tracked the notorious bushranger Captain Thunderbolt to his camp in the Maitland area. What they found was a heavily...

Goat Island in Sydney Harbour became Charles 'Boney' Anderson's prison for two years, chained to a large sandstone rock.

A 9 year old boy travels from the country to the city alone and stirs up a nation.

Frank Skinner Thompson and his wife Alice Maude knew how to show hospitality.

The fight over his will took up more space in the newspaper than his obituary.

This young dairy lad from New Zealand maps the heavens.

He had a heart for people and a head for business in the early Hobart days.

I was honoured to be asked to talk about the establishment of Tales

Two Irish brothers who had been running pubs in Melbourne, travel to Sydney to make their own beer, and create an Australian icon. It is...

When Enid Lyons made her maiden speech in Parliament in 1943, it was an historic moment.