In April 1789, 15 months after the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay, a major smallpox epidemic broke out. The Europeans who’d arrived in 1788 had some resistance to the disease through earlier ...

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During the exercise, a German fleet attacked and sank two allied ... and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP. This programme has been updated since the original broadcast.

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

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I’m working with the Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition, we’ve done a lot of work ... primarily to pay salaries of bus drivers and mechanics to repair our aging fleet. My absolute first priority would be to ...

Aboriginal life was not as simple ... The sources of information in the submission were books published since the arrival of the First Fleet. They present clear evidence about the lives of the ...

But the most truly remarkable of the First Fleet’s contingent was Lieutenant William Dawes. He befriended the Indigenous Eora people and attempted to learn their language. His notebooks have survived ...

Australia Day marks the anniversary of the first fleet of British ships that arrived on Australian ... To a growing number of Aussies, thus began the British occupation of Aboriginal land, thus ...

Eva Bacon – dress designer, political activist, and feminist Eva was born on 1 October 1909 in Vienna.  She was the eldest of ...