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Bookmark or Share- About - Australia DayOn Australia Day we celebrate all the things we love about Australia: land, sense of fair go, lifestyle, democracy, the freedoms we enjoy but particularly our people. Australia Day is about acknowledging the contribution every Australian makes to our contemporary and dynamic nation.
- Australia Day - WikipediaAustralia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour.
- British settlement begins in Australia | January 26, 1788 ...1788. British settlement begins in Australia. This Day In History: 01/26/1788 - Australia Day. On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts...
- Australia Day | History, Meaning, Date, Celebrations, & FactsAustralia Day, holiday (January 26) honouring the establishment of the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia. On January 26, 1788, Arthur Phillip , who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag at the site.
- Home - Australia DayThis is the Story of Australia - the story of an extraordinary nation. The Story begins 60,000 years ago. New chapters are written every day. On Australia Day, we reflect on our history, its highs and its lows.
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