Australia Day , called 'Invasion Day' by first Australians, its January 26 date and the festivities held on the day are increasingly a point of division in Australian society.

President Trump’s plan not only makes a mockery of international law, it also shows his contempt for the concept of ...

Many of Australia's most famous destinations ... thousands of years before Europeans arrived. After settlers showed up, the island became a prison and a dockyard for building and repairing naval ...

What colonialism and imperialism have in common is their determination to subjugate and dominate a group of people and, by ...

Archbishop Anne Germond, acting primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has joined Lutheran, United and Presbyterian church ...

Flogging of a convict in Tasmania, Australia The treatment of the transported convicts was poor and the use of excessive punishment was rife throughout the penal system. Lashings were commonplace and ...

HELLISH JOURNEY Penal ship The Neptune, from 1858.

listened to by prostitutes and prison inmates and loved by Australians high and low. The traditional Aboriginal people’s approach to God’s creation was not one of manipulation, domination or greed, ...

On Jan. 16, just two days before the first sets of hostage and prisoner releases, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he would be freeing seven settlers who had been held in ...

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a high-security Florida prison. Peltier was freed Tuesday morning, ...

BEITOUNIA, West Bank — Five months in Israeli prison changed Shatha Jarabaa ... rescinded administrative detention orders for Israeli settlers suspected of violence against Palestinians in ...

Australia Day is a divisive holiday that critics ... that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues of British settlers and an English king. The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and ...