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When the fleet landed at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson on January 26, 1788, no shots were fired and no one was physically hurt. Whether the country was 'invaded' or 'settled' - as much as what ...
These small, everyday actions helped create a vision of Sydney that excluded Aboriginal people – despite the fact that they have continued to live in and around Sydney since 1788.
Potter’s first example is a remarkable 1788 description of an Aboriginal ... in 1907 after training at the Women’s Hospital, Sydney. Potter has done a fine job uncovering the colonial story ...
The black, coffin-shaped speaker was draped with a bunch of red gladioli. At its base, a headstone read "Sydney, 1788-2014, Taken before its time." Touches like these - half-comic, half-dramatic ...
On the 26th of January 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip raised the British flag at Sydney Cove, beginning the long destruction of Indigenous people and their culture. In recent years there has been a ...
In 1788, the British seized the lands of the Gadigal ... creating stand-out new old hotels. Capella Sydney opened on March 15, the first hotel outside Asia for the Singaporean-owned brand.
Many of Sydney's roads and side streets are based on the original tracks and pathways created by Aboriginal people before the First Fleet arrived in 1788, experts say. Director of Aboriginal and ...
A statue in Sydney of British explorer James Cook ... which marks the anniversary of the arrival of the British First Fleet in 1788. Every year on Jan. 26, protesters rally against the ...
When the fleet landed at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson on January 26, 1788, no shots were fired and no one was physically hurt. Whether the country was 'invaded' or 'settled' - as much as what ...