The First Fleet arrives at Sydney Cove. The British would later found the penal colony and first European settlement in Australia. Credit: State Library of Victoria ...

Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has compared the arrival of the First Fleet with Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars in an Australia Day speech delivered at a local church service.

January 26 was made the national 'Australia Day' public holiday in 1994. It was on this same date in 1788, that the First Fleet established a convict settlement at Sydney Cove, marking the ...

The First Fleet collection gives a fascinating insight into life in Australia following the arrival of the British ... group of clans that lived in the area around Port Jackson, modern-day Sydney, ...