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 ...
The prime minister claims deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley disrespected Indigenous people with an analogy comparing the First ...
Australia’s national day, which falls today, has two purposes. It is an opportunity for Australians to celebrate who they are ...
An Australian man has been flown back to Perth to face 49 child sex offence charges. Meanwhile, Premier Roger Cook has blamed ...
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While Cook is historically recognised as the explorer who charted and claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770, his arrival is also seen as a prelude to the violent colonisation, ...
A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red ...
This is because Cook’s expedition paved the way for the 1788 decision to send the First Fleet led by Captain Arthur Phillip to the new continent. In January 2024, a statue of Cook in Melbourne ...
Edited by Ray Bonnell from a collection of letters and writings from his wife’s grandmother Margaret Miller, the book offers ...
This was an historic voyage across oceans to the other side of the world in ... The previous accounts by the navigator Captain James Cook had somewhat misled the crew into believing this would be a ...
In a budding instant classic, with Buffalo in position to take the lead for the first time all game at the end of the third ...