There have been calls to change the date of Australia Day/Invasion Day since as far back as 1938. January 26 marks the day in 1788 when the First Fleet landed in Australia to establish the colony of ...

How two dozen rabbits released in 1859 triggered one of history's fastest mammal invasions — and the biology behind Australia ...

Increased land management by Aboriginal people in southeastern Australia around 6,000 years ago cut forest shrub cover in half, according to our new study published in Science of fossil pollen trapped ...

The history of immigration policy in Australia is full of yes-no contradictions: fear jostling with hope, exclusion with openness. Australia has been pulled in different directions by the strength of ...

Gold has long held a special place in Australia's history, shaping the nation's economic fortunes and driving waves of migration since the 1850s gold rushes. Today, Australia stands as one of the ...

Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals evolved ...