Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still from footage of Oscar Jenkins released by court in Russian-controlled Ukraine An Australian who fought for Ukraine has ...

Most every nation has its legends of founders and pioneers, of promising shores and liberating revolutions. Australia, on the other hand, is a penal colony. Dating from the 1770s to the 1840s, its ...

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a ...

Providing a brief history of Australia is hardly possible, especially when you consider the nation's long and fraught history with Britain. Australia started as a penal colony - a place for ...