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West - view
evacuation of the half-castes from the half-caste institutions in and around the Northern Territory” during the Second World War
Central - view
Auntie Pat had gone to help her sister get a rental home and her sister’s story led to a march on parliament house.
North Coastal - view
visited Biddy’s grave
South West - view
Appin massacre commemoration 2013
North West - view
Waterloo Creek and Myall Creek massacres in 1838
South West - view
Appin massacre in 1816
North West - view
the role of the land council to care for and protect Darkinjung country “to honour the people who died in vain for this country
1789 - North Coastal - view
In many places our path was covered
with skeletons and the same spectacle were to be met with in hollows of most of
the rocks of that harbour”. Captain Hunter saw at Broken Bay “a native girl …
just recovered from small pox, and lame, she appeared to be 17 or 18 years of
age, and had covered her debilitated and naked body with wet grass … she was
very much frightened on our approaching her and shed many tears … we soothed
her distress a little, and the sailors were ordered to bring up some fire for
her.
1789 - North Coastal - view
In
a second expedition (to Broken
Bay) ”the river received
the name Hawkesbury … natives were found labouring under small pox. They did
not attempt to commit hostilities against the boats” (Tench 1996, p. 110)
1789 - North West - view
A smallpox epidemic sweeps through the coast people
1790 - North Coastal - view
Willermarin,
a Koori man visiting from the north, spears Governor Phillip at Manly Cove.
Phillip has taken up the invitation of Bennelong to attend a whale feast.
Phillip is the victim of an attack and is speared in the shoulder, staggers
back to his longboat while his soldiers disperse the Aboriginal people. Phillip
does not order retribution and Bennelong is later welcomed back into Phillip’s
confidence.
1790 - North Coastal - view
Pemulwuy,
a Koori from near Parramatta,
fights the invasion by the English through attacks upon the settlement. His
group commits many raids killing or wounding 17 people. Pemulwuy spears
Governor Phillip’s game keeper John McIntire who dies from his wounds. Governor
Phillip orders a punitive party to bring back six Aboriginal people dead or
alive, and even issues bags for the heads. Phillip is under much pressure from
the famous English naturalist Joseph Banks to obtain Aboriginal skulls promised
to other scientists.