On 26 January, one of the saddest days in human history will be celebrated in Australia. It will be “a day for families”, say the newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. Flags will be dispensed at ...

Australian flags, drained of colour can be seen fluttering from vehicles weeks after Australia Day celebrations. This national icon which over the years has spawned so much controversy, is often ...

Flag Association chairman Allan Pidgeon says the protocols are a little more relaxed on Australia Day. (ABC News)Images of the flag can be used on clothing, as long as it's not defaced or covered ...

The Australian flag has been slowly disappearing from Australia Day celebrations nationwide as opinion on the January 26 public holiday becomes increasingly divisive.

Aboriginal businessman Jay Walton, 47, has slammed the celebration of Australia Day on January 26 and Australia's national flag as a breach of Indigenous peoples' basic human rights.

The Australian flag has been burned publicly many times over the past decade. While former Prime Minister John Howard famously said in 2006 , "I do not believe it should be a criminal offence ….

CAPTAIN COOK PLANTED a flag on Australian soil in 1788, but it wasn’t until roughly 115 years later that Australia finally had a flag of its own, after King Edward VII gazetted his approval of a ...

An increasing number of non-Indigenous Australians find it impossible to celebrate Australia Day, in the knowledge that many of their Indigenous fellow citizens treat it as a day of mourning.