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1. You should know that... The First Fleet didnt actually arrive on the 26 January The First Fleet, the group of ships which left England to create a penal colony abroad, actually arrived in Botany Bay somewhere between the 18th and 20th of January 1788. Source: GIPHY After landing, settlers wanted to relocate in the hope of finding a more suitable area to construct their colony. They travelled to Sydney Cove on 25 January and the next morning, on the 26th, Sir Arthur Phillip and a small entou...

The federal Government has warned councils not to scrap Australia Day celebrations to placate Invasion Day activists.

Shows to watch on Aboriginal history before Australia Day Now To Love © Provided by Are Media Pty Ltd These shows and documentaries will help educate you on Indigenous history and culture as January 26th, also known as Australia Day and Invasion Day approaches. With the festive season well and truly behind us our focus may be stuck on returning to work, getting back into our routines and losing the Christmas kilos we gained that have left us feeling a little too festively plu...

All 11 ships arrived within two days of each other. There was hardly any loss of life. The 16,000 mile (25,750km) voyage, made at the speed of a man walking, eventually settled in what Captain Arthur Phillip called Sydney Cove, very close to what is now Circular Quay. So ended one of the great nautical achievements of the modern world. Detractors So many books have been written about the First Fleet, its arrival at Sydney Cove and what followed in the next few years, it’s difficult to discern...

It is time to recommission the first fleet. Here is how the new administration can do so. Ideas, both good and bad, often disappear with a change of administrations. One good idea that deserves to survive is the recommissioning of the 1 st Fleet proposed by Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite. The Secretary’s vision includes an expeditionary orientation, with a focus on our allies and partners. Western Australia and South East Asia are mooted as potential locations, placing the fleet in...

Black Boxes Located at Indonesian Airliner Crash Site; Human Remains Recovered

Rescuers searching for the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger jet that crashed into the ocean with 62 people on board on Saturday say they have located the plane's black box flight recorder and obtained communications data.

Normal text size Very large text size Waskam Emelda Davis was sitting in her favourite orange armchair in her loungeroom on a cool winters day when her phone rang. "Did you just hear this?" came her friends voice down the line. Prime Minister Scott Morrison had just been on radio, her friend informed her, claiming there was no history of slavery in Australia. "I was enraged," says Davis. The comments in June 2020, which the Prime Minister later apologised for and clarified, prompted a fresh exa...

Premier Daniel Andrews has issued a stern warning for Victorians not to protest the day that divides the nation - Australia Day. It comes as the traditional Australia Day parade has been ruled off the calendar this January 26. Mr Andrews has urged people against gathering, regardless whether for celebrations or protests. Thousands of Melbournians march through Melbourne on January 26, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Getty) Australia Day celebrations held on January 26, 2019.(AAP) "Its not about ...

Stairways to heaven: The amazing history of Sydneys most impressive steps Save Normal text size Advertisement Away from the cameras surveilling Sydney, public stairs remain among the few places where people "can still be private in public", says architect Jennifer Preston. As poet A. A. Milne wrote: "Halfway up the stairs isnt up, it isnt down ... It isnt really anywhere, its somewhere else instead." And in the case of the Steps to Nowhere on Hickson Road, Barangaroo, they lead up and down, but...