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War, Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Australian War Memorial

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| Australian Aboriginal / First Nations archive | Lt. James Cook of the Royal Navy invades Australia, circa 2pm, Botany Bay, Sunday, 29 July 1770. Aboriginal men oppose the invasion and are shot by Cook. Contents War! Inclusion or exclusion? Macquarie's War 1816 The 7.30 report Debunking Dillon Comments References ---------------- The people of Australia united against a foreign invader who had, without forewarning, declared war upon them through invasion and dispossession. Of whom do I speak, and when? The Australian Aboriginal people and the British under King George III, commencing on 29 April 1770. The task of the Australian War Memorial is to memorialize Australian involvement in war, including that which took place upon our very shores, beginning with the Australian Aboriginal War 1770-1844. The invasion and conquest of a country by a foreign force constitutes an act of war (Wikipedia) Lest We Forget... ---------------- 1. War! ...
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Captain Cook at Kamay / Botany Bay 1770

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Captain Cook: Botany Bay 1770 | Disobeyance of orders 1770 | Woonona 28 April 1770 | "View from the shore" - Cook @ Kamay / Botany Bay / Stingray Bay First-hand accounts by local Aboriginal people 29 April - 6 May 1770 Two of the natives of New Holland advancing to combat [Kamay 29 April 1770] Contents Introduction Accounts Videos Murramurang References Acknowledgements -------------- [NB: Within this text the spelling of Indigenous words is fluid] 1. Introduction During the 1990s one of the present authors was informed by a member of the local Illawarra Aboriginal community - Jeff Timbery, a descendant of the Timbery clan of Kamay / Botany Bay - that, according to oral tradition, when HMB Endeavour under the command of Lt. James Cook first sighted the east coast of Australia at Point Hicks on 20 April 1770, the vessel in turn was closely observed by Aboriginal people (Organ 2016). This was not, in all likelihood, the first ...
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