The history of Australia Day compiled by Pauline Walker, Fellowship of First Fleeters, Wingham

By Pauline Walker
Updated January 25 2017 - 12:12pm, first published January 24 2017 - 1:00pm
The history of Australia Day
The history of Australia Day

When the First Fleet landed at Sydney Cover on January 26, 1788 one of the first things that Captain Arthur Phillip did was to raise the English flag and claim New South Wales as a British colony.

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