The Founding of Australia 1788 was painted in 1937 by Algernon Talmage. It was commissioned for the sesquicentenary celebrations of 1938. The painting depicts the moment that Captain Arthur Phillip ...

Williamstown amateur historian Barb McNeill is Star Weekly’s history columnist. This week she writes of the panic that spread ...

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In 2024, The New York Times reported on an upside-down American flag flown outside the justice ... of China and its ally Russia moving to secure control over Arctic Sea routes and precious ...

Donald Trump gives his first speech as president at his inauguration to a front row filled with powerful and controversial people. We look at what he had to say.

In 2015 Yuri Milner, a Russian-born venture capitalist ... communes with some “extraterrestrial” intelligence at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California. Doyle’s studies of ...

Imagine that the government of William Pitt the Younger decided in 1786 not to send the First Fleet to Botany Bay but instead to the other site for a penal colony ... with no other flags flying over ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony. Igor ...

Australia’s Nick Kyrgios ... they can only do so as neutral athletes and not under the flags of Russia or Belarus.