Today, The Weekend Australian launches a six-part illustrated newspaper series — a “graphic ­serial” — that tells the story of ­Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet’s epic journey to ...

The day so feverishly defended by those wishing to 'protect our history' is no more than the 18th-century equivalent of finding a better parking spot outside the supermarket.

It marks the day when the First Fleet of 11 British ships sailed into Port Jackson with Governor Arthur Philip raising the British flag in Sydney Cove on 26 January, 1788. Many Indigenous ...

Like a current-day news story, this First Fleet painting records an important and dramatic event. In it we see Governor Phillip, head of the British colony, standing on the beach with a spear through ...