Tag: first fleet

Australia Life Journey
03/04/2023

Australia, did not exist prior to or at British settlement in 1778

Australia, did not exist prior to or at settlement of New South Wales as a British colony in 1778. A continent with three separate land masses did exist, however, this continent had no universal name or government or rule of law and had never been mapped so no one knew what it looked like. That is until Matthew Flinders circumnavigated and chartered the entire coastline […]

Australia Life Journey
02/04/2023

Sit quietly and you can hear Bennelong’s blackfella chuckling

Bennelong’s voice has trickled through the narrative of First Fleet onlookers. It chats to us from over two centuries ago to current time and naturally has been translated and misconstrued in turn by native mobs, anthropologists, historians, story tellers, and linguists along the way. Bennelong is an unfading elder and his spirit does speak to us from behind the veil. Bennelong is reflective about the […]

Australia Life Journey
02/04/2023

British settlement’s biggest threat to blackfella mobs was a loss of hunter gatherer lifestyle

The 1788 British settlement’s biggest threat to local native, mobs was the loss of their hunter gatherer way of life. Today we have a stealthful transfer of all Australian citizen’s common-wealth to a select faction of Aboriginal owned corporations. In the first year of British settlement the local natives attacked unarmed convicts and fishermen, and sporadically, armed officers and soldiers. No one grasped that living […]