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Princess Beatrice welcomed her second child in January 2025 — and the baby’s name appeared to have a sweet nod to Queen ...

Australia's national day is a date of mourning for many Indigenous Australians because it marks the day that Captain Arthur ...

Two historic statues were damaged in Melbourne ahead of Australia Day celebrations on Sunday where tens of thousands across ...

Ahead of Australia Day, two historic statues in Melbourne were vandalized. A statue of colonist John Batman was damaged, and ...

A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an illuminating Australia Day read.

A statue of British explorer Captain James Cook in a suburb of Sydney has been vandalised ahead of Australia Day, the second such incident in as many years. New South Wales Police said they were ...

As the event involved interaction between Captain Arthur Philip’s English crew coming ashore in Sydney Cove and indigenous people, a call ...

Australia Day, observed each year on January 26, marks the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, when the first governor of the British colony of New South Wales, Arthur Philip ...

Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag and established the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Aust ...

Ten persons including Shehzad were paraded before the two witnesses – Eliyamma Phillip and Junu, the actor’s son Jehangir’s nanny and nurse respectively, said police ...

CNN panel engaged in a tense exchange Wednesday after political commentator Ashley Allison claimed she is paid less as a ...