Following more than 2,000 design submissions, Australia's next $5 note won't feature the face of a British monarch and ...

Australia is going to follow Europe in spending more on defence. Unlike Europe, our extra spending won't strengthen our ...

This is the story of the Gothenburg, one of Australia’s worst maritime disasters. Now, 150 years on, Department for ...

“Australia was founded as a colony of Great Britain and so it has borrowed or adapted many British traditions,” says Campbell Rhodes, researcher with the Museum of Australian Democracy.

When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation was a method of punishment in the British legal system that originated in the 17th century ...

A top official says it is too close to the staging of the Olympics in Brisbane in 2032. Read more at straitstimes.com.