When the First Fleet appeared in Sydney Cove ... In recognition of their part in Australia's early maritime exploits, some Aborigines were given fishing-boats, land grants and metal breastplates.

The nation might be divided over whether Friday is 'Australia Day' or ... In the 236 years following the First Fleet's arrival, terrible injustices against Aboriginal people took place.

It’s widely celebrated down under as it marks the anniversary of the first fleet of British ships arriving at Port Jackson, New South Wales in 1788. But much of Australia’s Aboriginal ...

Celebrating Australia Day on the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet "celebrates illegal occupation", an Aboriginal community leader says. Yuendumu leader and Warlpiri researcher Simon ...

However, Australia happens ... a senior aboriginal activist in one of her interviews. Cook’s hypocrisy came to light when the first fleet reached Sydney Cove in 1788. Captain Phillip, who ...

British settlement of Australia started in January 1788, when the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove. Having been isolated from the world for thousands of years, Aboriginal people had no ...

On 26 January every year - which marks the 1788 landing of Britain's First Fleet in Sydney Cove ... appropriateness of celebrating Australia on a day when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Australia Day, celebrated annually on January ... January 26 marks the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the violent colonisation that followed. For First Nations peoples, this initiated ...

As Australia’s politicians ... the arrival of the first fleet in 1788 and colonisation of this country marked the beginning of genocide of Aboriginal peoples and the destruction of their culture ...

PALM Island Aboriginal Council Mayor Alf Lacey is happy to join a conversation about celebrating the First Australians but don’t ask him to celebrate the arrival of the First Fleet.

The nation might be divided over whether Friday is 'Australia Day' or ... In the 236 years following the First Fleet's arrival, terrible injustices against Aboriginal people took place.