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Advertisement Australians have plenty to celebrate on Australia Day. Unfortunately, every year we find ourselves debating whether one distinction in particular – our choice of date for our national day – is worth celebrating at all. National days around the world typically mark the anniversaries of national achievements such as the birth of the American republic on July 4, 1776, the confederation of Canada’s provinces on July 1, 1867, or New Zealand’s Waitangi Treaty with Maori on February 6, 1840. Eddie Mabo, whose historic High Court win on June 3, 1992 removed the legal...

Advertisement Australians have plenty to celebrate on Australia Day. Unfortunately, every year we find ourselves debating whether one distinction in particular – our choice of date for our national day – is worth celebrating at all. National days around the world typically mark the anniversaries of national achievements such as the birth of the American republic on July 4, 1776, the confederation of Canada’s provinces on July 1, 1867, or New Zealand’s Waitangi Treaty with Maori on February 6, 1840. Eddie Mabo, whose historic High Court win on June 3, 1992 removed the legal...

Not a particularly flash moment: how the PM misread our history We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Frank Bongiorno Save Normal text size Advertisement Scott Morrison has made a mini-industry out of a do-it-yourself Australian history. He’s had James Cook circumnavigating the continent. Now the Prime Minister’s rounded up the number of ships in the First Fleet from 11 to an even dozen. This is honest error rather than fake history. It displays Morrison’s ignorance, not ill-intent. It’s when he moves into the trickier ...

Published: 7:00 AM January 2, 2021    Some of the First Fleet, the ships which took British convicts to Botany Bay, where they established the first European settlement in Australia, 1788 - Credit: Getty Images PETER TRUDGILL on how long it took for the accent to appear after English arrived in Australia. In 1788, during the reign of King George III, the English language made a very long journey indeed, penetrating deep into the southern hemisphere. This was on the occasion of the foundation of the British Australian penal colony of New South Wales. Some exploration of northern Australia h...

This is How The Cold War is Being Fought in The Arctic! Published December 28th, 2020 - 12:36 GMT (Shutterstock) And the damage doesn’t stop at the Arctic. The Arctic has a long history of industrial and commercial activities. Here’s how climate change is affecting its ecosystem, resource management tools and security politics. The Norwegian Supreme Court ruled this week that the granting of oil permits for deeper drilling into the Arctic circle neither breached the constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment, nor violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The ...