It is more than two centuries ago that the first Royal Navy fleet arrived at Sydney Cove and raised the flag of Great Britain. The legacy of the past has grown more complicated with the passing ...

On 26 January every year - which marks the 1788 landing of Britain's First Fleet in Sydney Cove - two competing stories about Australia are told. One is of nation-building and achievement ...

The holiday on 26 January is the anniversary of the 1788 landing of Britain's First Fleet at Sydney Cove and the start of the colonial era. The vandals wrote "The colony will fall" on the Cook ...

When the First Fleet drew into Sydney Cove, it had not come from Mars. It had come from a Britain, then approaching its zenith of power and enlightenment. The Britain of Lord Justice Mansfield ...

The history of Australia from an Indigenous peoples' perspective, beginning with the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney and ending in 1993 with Eddie Kolki Mabo's legal challenge.

It was on this same date in 1788, that the First Fleet established a convict settlement at Sydney Cove, marking the beginning of European Colonisation of Australia. And it's a day of great pain ...