The Association for the Protection of Aborigines is established

The Association for the Protection of Aborigines is established, which, through its chairman George Thornton, considers it ‘wise and beneficial that reserves of suitable land should be set apart for the use of Aborigines, for purposes of forming homes, cultivation and production of grain, vegetables, fruit etc, for their own consumption, this would prove a powerful means of domesticating, civilising and making them comfortable’. (see stories)

  • Blue Mountains by Augustus Earle
  • View of Port Jackson from the South Head by John Pye 1782-84, courtesy of the National Library of Australia