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This accessible, thought-provoking new opera about the First Fleet's arrival helps fill a gap in a history written by visitors who never left.

It is precisely because we live in a genuine political democracy that the Voice advocates' attempt to has failed so decisively. The Fathers of Federation built better than they knew: they not only devised a means of successfully governing Australia, but also by means of referendums the means to preserve it

Peter Adamis argues that Australia has made the right decision in the Referendum and has still brought issues facing First Nations people to light

Indigenous people’s 60,000 years of connection to their country should be recognised, leaders say.

Australia’s Jews are a tiny minority, around 100,000, which is roughly a quarter of this year's immigration intake. Think about that, and then think about how, on Monday night, NSW Police chaperoned a disgusting and disgraceful mob of Hamas supporters while directing Jews to get out of town. There is something very wrong here

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?!”

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All 50c coins minted that year were supposed to display a First Fleet ship and the dates 1788-1988 to acknowledge the bicentenary. But an unknown number of those were wrongly minted.

On 26 January 1988, the celebration of the Bicentennial, then Prime Minister Bob Hawke gave a speech in which he famously declared: “In Australia, there is no hierarchy of descent, there is no privilege of origin.”