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 ...

On January 26, 1788, a ship landed in the newly established British colony of New South Wales, and 751 convicts and their families disembarked in a harbor in what would become the city of Sydney.

The colonisation of Australia is an important part of the secondary History curriculum. This series introduces two early settlements of Sydney and Melbourne and discusses the impact of colonisation on ...

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 ...