The two-day Boxing Day Test debacle cost Australian cricket an estimated $25m and will even hit players in the pocket.

Maybe Australia should stop trying to find symbolic worth in the past and instead focus on what kind of country it wants to be in the future. In 1988 Australia celebrated its bicentenary. The country was 87 years old at the time, having been formed on ...

Australia Day, an official public holiday celebrated on the 26th of January, commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in the late 1780s and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia. A festive occasion ...

January 26 is fast becoming a day that divides, rather than unites our country. So here's why some people want Australia Day moved to a different date. Like most years, Aussies will spend that precious day off work, eating and drinking too much with ...

January 26 is Australia Day, a national holiday honoring the arrival of the British fleet into New South Wales in 1788, the start of British sovereignty over Australia (or at least its eastern seaboard). To American eyes, Australia Day looks like a ...

Australia’s national day, held on January 26 every year, isn’t all beer and barbeques. While many see it as a day to celebrate the Australian lifestyle, for others it’s a painful reminder of death, disease, and cultures now lost forever. Australia ...

Usman Khawaja’s fairytale finish at the SCG didn’t quite go to plan, but Australia got home in the fifth Ashes Test to seal a 4-1 series victory after a dramatic middle session.

Rain and bad light cut Day 1 of the final Ashes Test short with England at 211/3. An unbeaten 154-run stand between Joe Root (72*) and Harry Brook (78*) rescued the visitors after they lost three early wickets in the first session.