There have been calls to change the date of Australia Day/Invasion Day since as far back as 1938. January 26 marks the day in 1788 when the First Fleet landed in Australia to establish the colony of ...

Victorian students are turning their backs on learning about the nation’s history and politics, while subjects on climate ...

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a ...

Australia’s history did not begin with colonization. Tens of thousands of years before empires rose elsewhere, Aboriginal Australians were living, adapting, and building culture across the continent.