Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two bills have been introduced to criminalise damaging the burning of the national flag. Picture: NewsWire / Tertius Pickard Two ...

Olympic moguls champion Cooper Woods and silver medal-winning aerial skier Danielle Scott have been chosen as flag-bearers to lead the record-breaking Australian team in the Milan-Cortina closing ...

For the first time, Australia will be allowed to pick two flag-bearers — one male and one female — at the Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony. It’s happened only once before at a Summer Olympics Closing ...

From left, the Australian flag, Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait Islander flag hang inside Sydney's Accor Stadium ahead of the first FIFA World Cup game in Australia. For the first time, Indigenous ...

While many councils around the nation look at cancelling Australia Day, one local council is giving its residents free Australian flags to show pride in their country. Maitland City Council, about ...

A miserable assortment of malcontents did their best to wreck it. This year I watched the “invasion day” drama unfold with friends holidaying from Europe who could not understand how the torching of ...

Mild Australia was roused from its apathy, with a ferocity that may have lacked only a few years earlier. The flag burner galvanised the nation – against him. It was one small moment that may help ...