One of the most distant British colonies, Australia is both a country and a continent. Due to its isolation from the rest of ...

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 damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was a fresh sign that Australia Day, which commemorates when a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbor to start a penal colony in the late 18th ...

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 ...

“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.

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.

Tony Abbott, who led the conservative Liberal Party, also tells Sky News Donald Trump will "blight" his second presidency if ...

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 ...

Australia Day on 26 January is considered a day of mourning by many Indigenous Australians, as it marks the day Captain Cook’s ship landed in Sydney Cove, triggering Australia’s colonisation by the ...