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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.

And just like astronauts arriving on Mars those first settlers would be ... Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788. Unlike future astronauts arriving on Mars, the British fleet was not arriving at ...

when the nation commemorates the arrival of British settlers to Sydney Harbor on Jan. 26, 1788. But those hoping to stretch out on the sand this year may find themselves confronted with another ...

The prime minister said the deputy Opposition leader's comparison of the British settlement of Australia ... of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788. "And just like astronauts arriving on ...

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 ...

Many Indigenous groups want Australia to drop celebrations or move the date, which marks the anniversary of the arrival of the British First Fleet in 1788. Every year on Jan. 26, protesters rally ...

Source: AAP Deputy Opposition leader Sussan Ley has used an Australia Day speech to compare the arrival of the First Fleet to Elon Musk's SpaceX Mars mission, calling British settlement a "daring ...

SYDNEY — Vandals in Australia poured red paint over a statue of famed British explorer James ... marks the arrival of European settlers at Sydney Harbor in 1788. Thousands of demonstrators ...

The British Museum initially was slow ... community of Indians remained on the island as late as 1788, two centuries after the Roanoke settlers arrived, but there is no sign of Indian traditions ...