HMS Sirius was a 20-gun Fifth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1780 and served in the American Revolutionary War. In 1787, she was chosen as the flagship of the First Fleet, and she arrived in Botany Bay on 26 January 1788.
HMS Supply was a 14-gun Sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1780 and served in the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1787, she was chosen as one of the escorts for the First Fleet, and she arrived in Botany Bay on 26 January 1788.
Australian writer and activist, Faith Bandler (1918 – 2015) organized a campaign for Aboriginal citizenship and worked for the recognition of crimes committed against local populations. The blackbirders Faith Bandler was born on September 27, 1918 as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing, in Tumbulgum, New
When you think of people from New Zealand, what do you envision? White people? Maybe semi-British, semi-Australian sounding people? Maybe a famous person from a movie youve seen or love? Thats exactly what I used to imagine in my mind. And because of colonialism and globalization, its almost exactly
A two meter long painting of a kangaroo in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has been identified as the oldest intact cave painting in Australia. Using radiocarbon dating of 27 mud wasp nests, collected above and below 16 similar paintings, a University of Melbourne collaboration has dated
Australian archaeologists have found some of the most detailed examples of rare and small-scale rock art, virtually miniature, made using the stencil technique or stencil in a rock shelter traditionally used by the Marra people, Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. The research, published i