Australia Day marks a British colony being established at Sydney Cove on Jan. 26, 1788, which eventually led to Britain claiming the entire country without a treaty with its Indigenous inhabitants.

The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include a Spanish Inquisition ceremony being performed, the first church ...

The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. It is clear the right and ...

“Australia was founded as a colony of Great Britain and so it has borrowed or adapted many British traditions,” says Campbell Rhodes, researcher with the Museum of Australian Democracy.

When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation was a method of punishment in the British legal system that originated in the 17th century ...

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

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and German-speaking Australians. Discover extraordinary ...

A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red paint and damaged two days before the country’s national day.

Two ex-British colonies ditched the Pound Sterling as ... system and new trading treaties changed all that. Canada and Australia dumped the British Pound and took up their own version of the ...