A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been splashed with red paint and its hand removed days before ...

The nation might be divided over whether Friday is ' Australia Day ' or 'Invasion Day' but historians say some basic facts ...

Australia’s national day, which falls today, has two purposes. It is an opportunity for Australians to celebrate who they are ...

We are just days away from Australia Day. I had in mind to update an essay I wrote for The Australian in 2014, The Shorter History of Australia.

When Captain James Cook sailed in through the heads of Kamay Botany Bay in 1770, he described gunyas dotted along the foreshore in his search for water: Saw as we came in on both points of the bay ...

Beach shacks have long been isolated and precarious. What we find charming today was once considered ‘fringe-dwelling’, separated from cities along racial and economic lines.

Unfortunately, it was soon realised that the bay was not as favourable as they had hoped. The previous accounts by the navigator Captain James Cook had somewhat misled the crew into believing this ...

XL: When Captain Cook shot an albatross, he ate it, according to Joseph Banks the botanist (after whom Botany Bay is named after) who was with him at the time. The myth that it was bad luck to shoot ...

The east coast of New Holland was claimed by British Captain James Cook in 1770 who renamed the land New South Wales. In due course, this led to the First Fleet landing at Botany Bay in 1888 and the ...

In fact, it was the combination of science and art by patron Sir Joseph Banks and artist Daniel Solander on the voyage of discovery to the east coast of Australia in 1770 that inspired Captain Cook to ...