The emergence of commercial photography technology in the mid-19th Century coincided with the rise of imperial control in the ...

The story of Australia usually begins in the late 18th century, when shiploads of imprisoned people from England began arriving as forced laborers to build the foundations of a new colony. For the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - An engraved silver disc believed to be colonial Australia's first work of art was sold at auction on Tuesday for A$873,750 (almost $857,000) to an Australian museum, the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two monuments symbolizing Australia's colonial past were damaged by protesters on Thursday ahead of an increasingly polarizing national holiday that marks the anniversary ...

It's said that a dog is a man's best friend, but the wild dingo is much maligned in Australia. This may not always have been the case though, with new research suggesting that dingoes were buried -- ...

"This sort of vandalism really has no place in our community and we'll be working, I want to signal today, that we will be working with council to repair and reinstate the statue, the statue in St ...