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.

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 ...

NAIDOC Week marks seventy years of courage, protest, and cultural celebration. From William Cooper’s petitions to today’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.