A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an essential Australia Day read. Here are the works they consider crucial to understanding our culture and ...

A woman carries a placard at an Invasion Day rally in Sydney, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Australia is marking the anniversary of British colonists settling modern day Sydney in 1788 while Indigenous ...

After many years of heated debate over whether January 26 is an appropriate date to celebrate Australia Day – with some councils and other groups shifting away from it – the tide appears to be turning ...

Maybe Australia should stop trying to find symbolic worth in the past and instead focus on what kind of country it wants to be in the future. In 1988 Australia celebrated its bicentenary. The country ...