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Kelso, Jane

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Kelso, Jane

Jane Kelso is the historian at Sydney Living Museums

The first Government House: building on Phillip’s ‘good foundation’ as Author

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The first Government House: building on Phillip’s ‘good foundation’

The first Government House was not a simple singular structure but a complex with a yard, outbuildings, guardhouse, garden and greater domain. It was a home, an office and a venue for public and private entertaining, but also a symbol of British authority, with all that that meant to different people, both then and now.