jane2020-04-29T14:33:06+10:00April 29th, 2020|
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 James Cook and crew on HMS Endeavour in 1770 provides an opportunity to review the [...]
jane2022-10-28T10:06:07+11:00April 20th, 2020|
Ben Collins of ABC Kimberley, is one of the latest to debunk the myths about Cook in his story posted today (20 April 2020): 'What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook': https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-20/captain-cook-history-what-we-often-get-wrong/12042438 It's Time Australia woke up to the truth of its history. For too [...]
jane2020-04-20T10:41:40+10:00April 20th, 2020|
This year, 2020, the 250th anniversary of Cook's voyage to Australia was to be commemorated at great expense–$A48.7 million was allocated for Cook commemoration ceremonies and a replica HMS Endeavour to sail around Australia. One positive outcome of the coronavirus pandemic is the cancellation of the proposed taxpayer-funded visit of the [...]
jane2022-10-06T15:10:22+11:00April 20th, 2020|
On 17 April 1816, at least 14 Dharawal men, women and children died in the Appin Massacre in the former colony of New South Wales. The killings, ordered by the then Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, were perpetrated by the military against Aboriginal people in reprisal for [...]
jane2020-04-20T08:48:55+10:00April 20th, 2020|
Two hundred and fifty years ago this April 2020, James Cook first "sighted", but did not "discover", the continent we now know as Australia. Warren Foster, a Yuin man from the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, tells the story from the perspective of the First Peoples. Read [...]
jane2022-10-05T14:35:56+11:00April 9th, 2020|
Listen to this story about resistance fighter Pemulwuy on the ABC's Nightlife with Philip Clark, 6 April 2020: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/history-dave-hunt-pemulway/12124258
jane2020-04-20T08:34:40+10:00April 9th, 2020|
Polynesian High Priest and star navigator, Tupaia, from Raiatea, a Tahitian island believed to be the cradle of Polynesian culture, played a crucial role in Captain James Cook's voyage to the southern ocean in 1769/70. Tupaia was able to communicate well with Maori when they landed at Poverty Bay, [...]
jane2020-03-29T18:41:05+11:00March 29th, 2020|
The first recorded pandemic in an Australian colony was the smallpox outbreak that decimated the Gadigal people around Sydney in April 1789. Ben Deacon, ABC News online, 29 March 2020 revisits this controversial event that many people today believe was a deliberate act against First Peoples: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-29/coronavirus-and-australias-first-pandemic-caused-by-smallpox/12099430 [...]
jane2020-03-25T11:32:16+11:00March 25th, 2020|
Owing to the Coronavirus outbreak, Anzac Day, 25 April 2020, will not include commemorations in which the public take part in person. Instead the Australian War Memorial will broadcast a private ceremony to be held at 5.30 am in the Commemorative Area and Hall of Memory. Read more about the [...]
jane2020-03-25T11:23:46+11:00March 25th, 2020|
Owing to the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, the Australian War Memorial will close indefinitely. Read the announcement made on 23 March 2020: https://www.awm.gov.au/media/press-releases/memorialclosure
