The purpose of the First Fleet was to found a penal colony at Botany Bay, not engage in extensive diplomatic efforts with the local Indigenous Australians or barter for their alliance. Therefore, the primary focus of the ships' cargoes was on survival equipment, tools, supplies, and provisions for settling the colonists and securing the new settlement.
Australia is home to various indigenous groups, whose lives are governed by their affiliation with their country. From this connection arises their spiritual and mythical beliefs. Dreamtime is the term commonly used to describe the important features of the beliefs of Aboriginal communities. Accordi
In the era of partitions, many Poles were seduced by dreams of establishing New Poland in remote corners of the globe. There were projects to create a national team in Africa, Oceania and Brazil. One daredevil also pushed the idea to settle the uninhabited areas of Western Australia. What came out o
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
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