Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still from footage of Oscar Jenkins released by court in Russian-controlled Ukraine An Australian who fought for Ukraine has ...

When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a ...

Most every nation has its legends of founders and pioneers, of promising shores and liberating revolutions. Australia, on the other hand, is a penal colony. Dating from the 1770s to the 1840s, its ...

Rescue of ‘Catalpa Six’ in 1876 involved a secret agent posing as a wealthy investor and a whaling ship flying the Stars and Stripes The Catalpa, the ship used to rescue the Irish prisoners from ...