The story of Australia usually begins in the late 18th century, when shiploads of imprisoned people from England began arriving as forced laborers to build the foundations of a new colony. For the ...

SYDNEY, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Two statues of colonial figures were vandalised overnight in the Australian city of Melbourne, ahead of a contentious national holiday on Friday marking the arrival of the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Two monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary of ...

Things like Aboriginal lore and wisdom, colonial and convict history  and the continuous fight to keep the bush healthy and the old growth forests off the back of semis and out of wood chippers.” ...

Jarrod Hore receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists ...

Vandals toppled a monument honouring a 19th century Australian pioneer in the early hours of Saturday, the eve of Indigenous rights protests expected on the country's national holiday, police said.

Olivia Evans receives funding from Australian Research Council. Iain Walker has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Medical Research Future Fund. Kate Reynolds receives ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. This was the headline Sabah woke up to on the morning of November 10th. Before the Mongabay story broke, I heard from Australian friends and allies ...