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Captain Arthur Phillip, 1786

Captain Arthur Phillip, 1786

By

Francis Wheatley

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a928087 / ML 124]

(Mitchell Library)

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Wheatley, Francis

State Library of New South Wales

First Fleet

Phillip described the transportation of convicts to New South Wales as a voyage 'to the extremity of the globe'. Having successfully managed both the ships and the convicts, the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove brought Phillip new challenges: how to keep men and women, convicts and alcohol, camp and fleet, apart.

Governor Phillip and the Eora

What was Governor Arthur Phillip's relationship with the Eora, and other Aboriginal people of the Sydney region? Phillip's policies, actions and responses have tended to be seen as a proxy for the Europeans in Australia as whole, just as his friend, the Wangal warrior Woolarawarre Bennelong’s allegedly tragic life has for so long personified the fate of Aboriginal people since 1788. To fully imagine those early years, we must see them through the twin lenses of British and Eora perspective and experience to glimpse what was happening, and why. This allows a nuanced and complex view, and the banishment once and for all the notion that there can be only one 'right' story.

Phillip, Arthur

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British naval officer who became first Governor of New South Wales, leading the colony for five difficult years.