That’s it. That’s why Australia Day is January 26: it was the date the First Fleet moved from Botany Bay to Sydney Cove. Needless to say, speaking from a historical standpoint, the weird ...

Sussan Ley says Australia Day is a day of celebration, likening the arrival of the British First Fleet to Elon Musk's efforts ...

Deputy Opposition leader Sussan Ley praised Australia's colonial history as a successful "experiment" while criticising Invasion Day rallies.

Australia Day is a national holiday that is held each year on 26 January - the anniversary of Britain's First Fleet landing at Sydney Cove in 1788. Many Indigenous Australians say the date causes ...

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 ...

The anniversary of the landing of Britain's First Fleet in Sydney Cove in 1788 is regarded by many indigenous people as 'Invasion Day', or the beginning of colonization and discrimination.

Australia Day, celebrated on 26 January, is a contentious holiday in the country as it is the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, establishing the first permanent ...

Only 43 per cent connected the date with the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove, with one in five saying the day marked Cook’s discovery of Australia’s east coast and a small but ...

One of the world’s largest celebrations of traditional maritime culture will drop anchor in Hobart from Friday, with the ...