When those 12 ships turned up in Sydney, all those years ago, it wasn’t a particularly flash day for the people on those vessels either… Prime Minister Scott Morrison It was not a flash day at Sydney Cove,not a flash day for anyone.Not flash for the sailors, turning aboutfor a week in that blasting SouthernContinue reading “Change the Heart”
Tag Archives: Australian history
Advance
We also came across the seas, my people: Romans, Vikings, colonials, the lot of them, convicts and scoundrels, emperors and ne’er-do-wells. They came and they saw, they usurped, or were sent. You came like us, to this lucky country. You came in hope. We take it from you. We also heard of the boundless plains;Continue reading “Advance”
Redfern When
As a child, I only knew this as the place where my grandfather was born, the name full of bright, fiery growth like I saw near home, our forests full of ferns both red and green. In history class I learnt this was the scene of old but living wars, fought, neither won nor lost.Continue reading “Redfern When”
Blackbirding
Did you come here for pearls, having heard of the Bay where the oyster-shell waters open up wide to share? Have you brought your investors to see what’s for sale in the town by the jetty at old Roebuck Bay? Have your brought your own tender to hold as you dive, or some eager companionsContinue reading “Blackbirding”
The Consolations of Writing 