Australia Day celebrations turned sour Thursday when a plane crashed into the water in Perth, with two people inside. The incident, which was caught on camera, prompted organizers to cancel a firework display after fruitless attempts to rescue the victims. The Grumman G-73 Mallard flying boat made a dramatic descent into the Swan River as onlookers who had gathered for the Australia Day firework display... 

During an Australia Day speech, Michael Pezzullo, the head of the immigration department, told his department that Australia should not think of itself as a European (White) country and become a “gateway to the world”, or better said a second Babylon, the first one being the United States of course. “It is always going to be the case that we were, and therefore will always be, a settler nation”...