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

‘North view of Sydney Cove’, taken from the flagstaff opposite the observatory by a Port Jackson painter, circa 1793–1795 The drawings in the First Fleet collection reflect Australia's flora, fauna ...

26 January 1788: A convict settlement is establish at Sydney Cove. Captain Arthur Phillip RN was commander of the First Fleet of 11 ships that sailed into Botany Bay, New South Wales, in January 1788.

"All those years ago, those ships did not arrive, as some would have you believe, as invaders," Ley said, referring to the First Fleet's arrival at Sydney Cove in 1788. "In what could be compared ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...