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Celebrating 140 Years
The First Fleet
First Fleet - Behind The News
Recently we celebrated Australia day on the 26th of January. But why do we mark it on that day in particular? To answer that question, Sarah will take you back in time to 1788, to meet some kids who came to Australia on the First Fleet.
Pemulwuy
1792: Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy leads resistance against Sydney colonists
The convict impact on Aboriginal people
Impacts of the convict system on Aboriginal Country and communities
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Artists of the First Fleet
Discover the original journals, logbooks, letters, paintings and drawings covering the voyage of the First Fleet, the mutiny on the Bounty and Matthew Flinders' journeys.
First peoples
Joseph Lycett (c. 1775–1828) came to Australia as a convict after being sentenced to transportation for the forgery of pound notes. Unlike most early colonial artists, who were interested in painting the flora and fauna of the new colony, Lycett painted the rituals and customs of the Indigenous people. For his nineteenth-century audience, who were more used to looking at attractive pictures of the plants and animals of the colony, Lycett’s paintings were difficult to interpret and appreciate.
Aboriginal Australians night fishing by fire torches, New South Wales, ca. 1817 [picture]
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