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War, Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Australian War Memorial

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| Aboriginal archive | Contents War! Inclusion or exclusion? Macquarie's War 1816 Comments Debunking Dillon The 7.30 report References ---------------- 1. War!   The Aboriginal people of Australia, from 28 April 1770, defended their Country and the sovereignty they held therein against a foreign invasion by British armed forces of that date and following the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788. As such, the resistance actions undertaken in connection with the Australian Aboriginal War - a core element of the later so-called colonial Frontier Wars - warrant inclusion in the Australian War Memorial collections and public galleries as they represent defence of the nation by Australian against foreign invasion. However you want to define it, this was a war by the British against Australian Aborigines. The actions of Aboriginal warriors and elders such as Pemulwuy, Canabygle, Windrayne, Tarenorerer (female), Yagan, Multugerrah, Jandmarra, Mosquito, ...
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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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