This course relates the collision of two worlds and the dawn of a new nation.
On their arrival, the British claimed the country as their own through the law of terra nullius (meaning land belonging to no-one) giving the local Indigenous people no rights to a treaty or any ownership of their land. By 1795 colonists had claimed the land of the Cadigal clan and neighbouring Aboriginal language groups, disrupting them from their own countries.
The history of Australia will be discussed through the relationship between the aboriginal people and the colonists, from the arrival of the first British in 1788 until the appointment of Linda Burney, the first Aboriginal woman elected to the House of Representatives in 2016.
- Teacher: Demaubus Thierry