Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

One of the most competitive corners of global finance is becoming even more extreme as bankers take big risks to outmaneuver rivals for lucrative block trades in Australia. These large chunks of stock ...

The 1975 dismissal of then-prime minister Gough Whitlam by the governor-general has sparked decades of controversy and spurred a conversation about having an Australian head of state. * December 2, ...

Traffic stopped across key intersections of the Melbourne CBD, the Sydney Opera House sails were lit up with poppies and, in the silence, Australians have paused to honour those who died while serving ...

1950 US science-fiction writer Lafayette Ron Hubbard publishes the book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. 1954 L. Ron Hubbard establishes the Church of Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard ...

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Lucinda Garbutt-Young is a public sector and federal politics reporter. She was previously The Canberra Times' property reporter and national video lead, after coming to the capital via the Newcastle ...

Under the timeline agreed on Thursday, Liberal MPs and senators will meet on November 12 to talk energy and emissions reduction. On November 13, opposition energy and emissions reduction spokesman Dan ...

Messages in a bottle from two Australian World War One soldiers have been found on a beach and are now back with their relatives. Show more Messages in a bottle from two Australian World War One ...

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia's coast.

Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers in 1916 have been found more than a century later on the country's south-western coast. The cheerful notes were penned just a few days into ...