Weatherday: Australia Day

Light rain showers will clear by mid-morning to a mainly cloudy day. Milder than of late, temperatures up to around 8deg.

Moderate southerly winds will ease and shift westerly.

On this day in 1788, Arthur Phillip raised the English flag in what is now Sydney Cove, and with a shipload of convicts established the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia.

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