Sri Lanka is staring down the barrel at 44-3 after Australia achieved its largest ever total in Asia — 654-6 declared — on day two of the first test in ...

Australia's reliance on coal-fired power stations has dropped to a record low, accounting for less than 50 percent of its ...

Firefighters were desperately trying to stop a cluster of fast-moving blazes in southeast Australia on Tuesday, as thousands ...

From 1952 to 1980, the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) enabled over half of all Greek migrants to ...

Australia's national day is a date of mourning for many Indigenous Australians because it marks the day that Captain Arthur ...

The vandalism unfolded in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics see as a symbol of ...

A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an illuminating Australia Day read.

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Wildlife monitoring is vital to arresting Australia’s extinction crisis. But research shows we may be getting false pictures ...

The murky disappearances of critical archives point further to the high-level involvement of the ruling apparatuses in the US ...

From a giant ram to Ned Kelly’s armour, these key treasures perfectly capture our pop culture, history and achievements as a nation.

The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe ...