Debate continues to swirl over whether to commemorate January 26, the date that British Royal Navy officer Arthur Phillip crossed Sydney Cove in 1788, planting the Union Jack to proclaim the new ...

It marks the day when the First Fleet of 11 British ships sailed into Port Jackson with Governor Arthur Phillip raising the British flag in Sydney Cove on 26 January, 1788. Many Indigenous ...

Captain Phillip raises flag to declare British possession at Sydney Cove, Australia, 26 Jan 1788 Source: SBS Australias national day has its roots in the countrys colonial past. It marks the day ...

The holiday on 26 January is the anniversary of the 1788 landing of Britain's First Fleet at Sydney Cove and the start of the colonial era. The vandals wrote "The colony will fall" on the Cook ...