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THE boat edged its way past the mangrove swamps, a tangled maze of thorn-covered branches sheltering jaguars and shrieking howler monkeys. It was in Belize, the GPS signals showed, the English-speaking Central American country where British pirates put down stakes centuries ago.

Two monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary of British settlement. A statue in Melbourne of British naval officer James Cook, who in 1770 charted Sydney’s coast, was sawn off at the ankles, while a Queen Victoria monument in the city's Queen Victoria Gardens was doused in red paint. Images posted on social media showed the body of the Cook statue lying...

At last a politician with a spine. We’ve had far too many invertebrates in Canberra for far too long.

On Monday nights Q+A program member for Sturt, James Stevens, was met with a heated response when he said all Australians were better off due to British settlement.

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Archaeologists have found the first ever evidence of crucifixion in the UK, at an unknown Roman-British settlement that includes 5 cemeteries.

Deputy Prime Minister and area representative for Lake Independence, Cordel Hyde, introduced the Reparatory Justice for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in British Honduras Motion, 2021, which enjoyed wide bipartisan support.

Singapore-jackson-1828-2 $3,250.00 Title Plan of the Town of Singapore by Lieut. Jackson. / Plan of the British Settlement of Singapore by Capt. Franklin and Lieut. Jackson.   1828 (dated)         1 : 20500 Description Known as the Jackson Plan or Raffles Plan, this is the first published map of Singapore. Published in 1828, the map was drawn by Lieutenant Philip Jackson at the request of Singapore founder Sir Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826). It is divided into two sections, a map o...