Cronulla Riots - Documentary - SBS. Make no mistake: Cook’s voyages were part of a military mission to conquer and expand. Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region.
We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. You can see other stories in the series here and an interactive here. The military nature of the Endeavour’s voyage – as part of an aggressive reconnaissance and defence against Indigenous resistance – has historically been overlooked or downplayed. But musket fire was used many times to teach lessons of British military superiority. Violence underscored almost all of Cook’s Pacific encounters with Indigenous peoples.
In the broader strategic sense – as all 18th and early 19th century scientific voyages were – Cook’s voyages were part of a European drive to conquer. At its heart, Cook’s first voyage was first and foremost a Royal Navy expedition and he was chosen as a military commander who had a background in mathematics and cartography. Cook250 – The Conversation. The stories of Tupaia and Omai and their vital role as Captain Cook's unsung shipmates. Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region.
We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. You can see other stories in the series here and an interactive here. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Several recent exhibitions on James Cook have sought to include discussions of the Indigenous people who journeyed with him on his Pacific voyages. In exhibitions marking the 250th anniversary of the Endeavour’s departure from Britain in 2018, for example, both the British Library and the National Library of Australia focused in part on the priest Tupaia, who travelled with Cook from Tahiti to Batavia (present-day Jakarta) in 1769. These exhibitions emphasised Tupaia’s navigational prowess, but didn’t provide extensive detail on the role he played in the British enterprises.
Tupaia’s motivations for joining the Endeavour. Captain Cook 'discovered' Australia, and other myths from old school text books. Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region.
We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. You can see other stories in the series here, and an interactive here. What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook. Posted Sun at 10:34pmSun 19 Apr 2020, 10:34pm With the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's voyage to Australia, it is time to brush up on the history of our nation's most famous naval explorer. Key points: Many European voyages had previously visited and mapped parts of AustraliaCook was not surprised to sail into view of what he called the "east coast of New Holland"Cook reported that he had "failed in discovering" an unknown southern continent.
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The Liberal party under Robert Menzies was determined to win government; in 1948, it launched ‘John Henry Austral’, a twice-weekly radio broadcast that promoted its basic philosophy. It ran for over 18 months, broadcast on 80 commercial radio stations across Australia. Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Society. Navigating through difficult histories. EDITORIAL: How exactly should we remember the important early encounters in New Zealand history?
Should we praise or condemn or find a difficult but honest middle ground? The Government announced in February that it has committed $3.5 million to a national commemoration of the 250 years that have passed since Captain James Cook first visited New Zealand. Words like "discovery" have long since been outmoded. Former Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Maggie Barry talked instead of the first encounters between Europeans and Māori, with a replica of Cook's ship, the Endeavour, stopping at important sites of contact, beginning with Gisborne in October 2019.
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In the 1890s, South and Western Australia followed New Zealand in giving women the vote. These democratic achievements led the world and shaped the nation created in 1901 when the colonies federated. Democracy was in its blood and the experiments continued. Australia was the first nation to give women the right to stand for parliament, and the first to establish a national non-partisan electoral machinery. Why were so many women in the 1970s high on drugs and called Barry? Not exactly.
In the world of the Weekly, married women took not only their husband's surname, but his first name as well. Their own name disappeared entirely. Even someone as famous as the glamorous Sonia McMahon – wife of the then prime minister, Billy McMahon – was nearly always referred to as Mrs William McMahon. She was in the magazine all the time, in photo shoots and interviews and the social pages – usually standing next to a woman called Mrs Burt Carruthers or Mrs Graeme Williams.
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Jacqui Newling, the resident colonial gastronomer at Sydney Living Museums, has long been researching the types of food served in the city's historic houses, like the terrace houses at The Rocks built in 1844.
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By Will Higginbotham Updated Recent debate in the United States over the legacy of slavery has reignited discussions about Australia's own dark past. Starting from the 1860s, tens of thousands of Pacific Islanders were taken to Australia to work on plantations in Queensland — often by force or trickery. Unmarked mass graves full of labourers who died on those plantations are still being uncovered today. Now their descendants, the Australian South Sea Islander community, are calling for their history to be properly recognised. Shooting The Past. Shooting The Past. Video Overview Beautiful Melbourne (1947) on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online.
Theconversation. The relationship between European settlers and native Australian foodstuffs during the 19th century was a complex one. While the taste for native ingredients waxed and waned for the first century of European settlement, there’s ample evidence to demonstrate that local ingredients were no strangers to colonials’ kitchens or pots. British settlers needed to engage with the edible flora and fauna of the continent almost immediately upon arrival. The journals of First Fleet officers record not only their reliance on native food, but the relish with which they enjoyed it. For example, First Fleet surgeon George Worgan noted in his diary a feast held to celebrate the King’s birthday: We sat down to a very good Entertainment, considering how far we are from Leaden-Hall Market, it consisted of Mutton, Pork, Ducks, Fowls, Fish, Kanguroo, Sallads, Pies & preserved Fruits. But despite the colonists’ reliance on native ingredients to supplement their diet, they were regarded with deep suspicion.
Worst mass murder of police in Australian history remembered. Updated Police have gathered in a remote forest near the southern New South Wales town of Braidwood to mark 150 years since the worst mass murder of police officers in Australian history. On January 9, 1867, four special constables assigned to catch the notorious Clarke Gang were ambushed and killed near Jinden, New South Wales.
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