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Port Jackson: a native (possibly Colebee), 1802

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William Westall
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National Library of Australia
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Colebee c1760-1806

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Westall, William

National Library of Australia

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.

Aboriginal

Colebee c1760-1806

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Cadigal man captured with Bennelong, who became familiar with the Europeans but disappeared after 1806.