Benalla and district celebrated Australia Day on Sunday, January 26, with community events held across the region.

The statue of a person some call an "explorer" and others call a "colonizer" has been vandalized in Australia. English naval ...

Australia’s national day, which falls today, has two purposes. It is an opportunity for Australians to celebrate who they are ...

Thousands of Australians took to the streets on Australia Day in protest, highlighting it as a day of mourning for Indigenous ...

Multiple monuments in Australia defaced to protest country’s national day - The day is contentious as many Indigenous ...

Australia's national day on Jan. 26 is a date of mourning for many Indigenous Australians because it marks the day that Captain James Cook landed in Sydney Cove and the beginning of the country's colo ...

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of ...

Former England captain Sir Alastair Cook says it will take honesty and two or three years of hard work for the women's side ...

SYDNEY >> 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 ...

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

A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before Australians celebrate their controversial “Australia Day” on Sunday. New ...

Australian police are investigating after a statue of Captain James Cook was covered in red paint and disfigured, ahead of the Australia Day weekend. It is the second time in 12 months that the statue ...