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North Coastal - view

describe their different links to this place

Central - view

the drug trade of the 80’s-early 2000’s that “crucified our community”

South West - view

the 1984 rally for land rights

Central - view

Fred Maynard 's Australian Aborigines Progressive Association writing to the king in protest

North Coastal - view

power of individual’s stories, knowledge from past generations, relating to cultural heritage

Central - view

first National Aboriginal Dance Conference at The Powerhouse Museum

West - view

the fracturing of the Darug community began in the 1990’s. Much of it developing around issues arising from the Native Title Act .

Central - view

First World War

Central - view

citizenship in 1967

West - view

Auntie Joyce Dukes , interviewed at Mingaletta , came to Sydney in 1942 with many other children shipped from the Northern Territory.

1788 - West - view

invasion

1789 - North West - view

A smallpox epidemic sweeps through the coast people

1789 - North Coastal - view

In many places our path was covered with skeletons and the same spectacle were to be met with in hollows of most of the rocks of that harbour”. Captain Hunter saw at Broken Bay “a native girl … just recovered from small pox, and lame, she appeared to be 17 or 18 years of age, and had covered her debilitated and naked body with wet grass … she was very much frightened on our approaching her and shed many tears … we soothed her distress a little, and the sailors were ordered to bring up some fire for her.

1789 - North Coastal - view

In a second expedition (to Broken Bay) ”the river received the name Hawkesbury … natives were found labouring under small pox. They did not attempt to commit hostilities against the boats” (Tench 1996, p. 110)

1790 - West - view

protest

1790 - West - view

smallpox

1790 - Central - view

The London Oracle

1790 - West - view

killing Phillip’s gamekeeper

1790 - North Coastal - view

Willermarin, a Koori man visiting from the north, spears Governor Phillip at Manly Cove. Phillip has taken up the invitation of Bennelong to attend a whale feast. Phillip is the victim of an attack and is speared in the shoulder, staggers back to his longboat while his soldiers disperse the Aboriginal people. Phillip does not order retribution and Bennelong is later welcomed back into Phillip’s confidence.

1790 - North Coastal - view

Pemulwuy, a Koori from near Parramatta, fights the invasion by the English through attacks upon the settlement. His group commits many raids killing or wounding 17 people. Pemulwuy spears Governor Phillip’s game keeper John McIntire who dies from his wounds. Governor Phillip orders a punitive party to bring back six Aboriginal people dead or alive, and even issues bags for the heads. Phillip is under much pressure from the famous English naturalist Joseph Banks to obtain Aboriginal skulls promised to other scientists.