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This collection included significant ethnological specimens such as Australian Indigenous artefacts, many of which were acquired from the Sydney International Exhibition. Collections belonging to the Linnean Society and Arts Society of New South Wales were lost, as was the colony’s census of 1881, documents relating to land occupation and railway surveys.
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The Sydney wars. From Sydney Cove to the Cumberland Plain, and the mountains and rivers that ring the Sydney Basin, 1788 to 1817 was a period of sustained warfare, which spread as the colonists intruded further into sovereign Aboriginal lands. Sydney was the scene of Australia’s first frontier.
When Lieutenant Cook sailed the HMB Endeavour up the East Coast in 1770, Aboriginal peoples lit carefully managed signal fires on headlands as a warning. While the ship’s crew noted smoke and fires, they lacked the cultural knowledge to see that an emergency response system was in action. During the 250th anniversary of the HMB Endeavour ...
Paterson administered the colony of New South Wales in the absence of a resident Governor on two occasions, the first was from 12th December 1794 to 11th September 1795, relieving Major Grose as administrator when he left Sydney in 1794 until the return of Captain John Hunter to take up the Governorship.
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The Sydney wars. In letters, diaries, journals and official records of the early colony of NSW, conflict with Aboriginal people was often described as ‘war’, yet Aboriginal resistance has rarely been framed in military terms. In early 1816, in a huge arc around the Cumberland Plain from Lane Cove on the north shore to Bringelly in the west ...
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The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia. At its greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory as well as ...
