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.

Convict Francis Fowkes produced this annotated sketch map in 1788 of the colony settlement at Sydney Cove. Image credit: courtesy National Library of Australia Phillip first went to sea as a boy in ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.