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Mount Dispersion recognised as a Declared Aboriginal Place
Mount Dispersion, site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in 1836, has been recognised as a Declared Aboriginal Place. The gazettal, on 24 April 2020, of the site gives it legal recognition and protection as [...]
Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony 2020 cancelled, goes virtual
Owing to the corona virus pandemic, the 20th anniversary Myall Creek Memorial ceremony has been cancelled. However the Friends of Myall Creek are planning a virtual Annual Gathering. Read more from the Friends below. [...]
Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians
Although the National Museum of Australia is not open to the public due to the corona virus pandemic, anyone interested in the anniversary of the 250th voyage of HMS Endeavour and the untold stories [...]
1770 and all that from Inside Story
Hamish McDonald reports for Inside Story today, 29 April 2020, on the anniversary festival at Cook's landing place that had to be abandoned because of the coronavirus pandemic. Read the article at: https://insidestory.org.au/1770-and-all-that/ Replica [...]
Aboriginal leaders contest Dharawal words spoken as Cook landed
Today, 29 April 2020, is 250 years since Captain James Cook and crew from HMS Endeavour landed at Kundal, known in English as Kurnell, on Botany Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. But Aboriginal [...]
First Peoples’ accounts of Cook’s arrival differ from British history
Cook's arrival revisited A sketch of Cook and his party preparing to land at Kundal, Botany Bay, 29 April 2020 (Wikimedia) The 250th anniversary of the voyage by Captain [...]