On the other side of the city, the Australia Day party was in full swing ... to take part in the annual race across the very same water that British Royal Navy officer Arthur Phillip crossed ...

Hundreds of Australia Day beachgoers at Burleigh, on Queensland's Gold Coast, were told to get out of the surf due to shark sightings in the afternoon. Lifesavers cleared the water of swimmers at ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Australians marked the ... Prime Minister Anthony Albanese committed to the referendum on the day his center-left Labor Party government was elected in May last year.