jane2020-04-29T16:17:56+10:00April 29th, 2020|
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 leaders are contesting what was said on Cook's landing at Kundal. According to the diary [...]
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 [...]
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
jane2018-10-04T01:49:21+10:00October 4th, 2018|
Read Paul Daley's story about the true history of Bathurst in The Guardian on 7 August 2018 at: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/07/bathurst-where-the-spirits-prowl-and-whisper-painful-bloody-truths
jane2018-04-25T11:22:36+10:00April 25th, 2018|
"Lest We Forget The Frontier Wars"–banners and placards recall conflicts between colonists and Australia's First Peoples on the colonial frontier, Frontier Wars March, Anzac Parade, Reid, Canberra, 25 April 2018. Photo: Jane Morrison If Anzac Day is about Australian servicemen and women fighting in overseas wars to protect [...]
