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Overall, the uptake of rooftop solar by Australian households is saving us about $3 billion a year on power costs. The ...

We are just days away from Australia Day. I had in mind to update an essay I wrote for The Australian in 2014, The Shorter ...

A normal household would expect to have its three Irish maids, a cook, a coachman ... and two years later a captain. He was then sent out to New South Wales in charge of a convict guard.

Captain James Cook also used the sounds for shelter and food. He made Meretoto/Ship Cove his base in the 1770s and discovered a plant (Cooks scurvy grass) high in vitamin C to cure scurvy. On Motuara ...

Some foods are inherently (and, in my view, undeservedly) divisive. ‘Love it or hate it’ splits opinions on things like marmite, liquorice, coriander and sauerkraut.

NEW YORK — Captain Cook won the $250,000 Withers by 2 1/4 lengths at Aqueduct on Saturday, putting the 3-year-old colt ...

A team from Robert Debré Hospital, part of the Assistance Publique — Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) group in Paris, France, conducted a study on the rising incidence of scurvy by examining ...

SYDNEY, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook, captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, was sprayed with red paint and damaged two ...

English naval Captain James Cook sailed the world's oceans in the 1700s. Cook's crews were famously brutal to the Indigenous people of the lands where their ship docked. Australia Day, celebrated ...