Police in Australia launched an investigation on Friday after a statue of British naval officer James Cook was found ...

Australia Day is known to some Indigenous Australians as Invasion Day, symbolising a key moment in the destruction of their ...

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An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...

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 days before Australia's national ...

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

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Another major hospitality group has decided to snub Australia Day celebrations, instead encouraging patrons to spend money at its ritzy venues on the “January Long Weekend”.

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 ...

Because January 26 falls on a Sunday this year, many people will get a long weekend thanks to a public holiday on Monday.

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While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...