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The ongoing dispossession of the Aboriginal people who lived on the Cumberland Plain by white settlers lead to ongoing violence and assaults. The government ordered reprisals by the military included the massacre of at least 14 Aboriginal people near Appin in 1816.

Massacre of 14 members of the Dharawal people which occurred in 1816 when Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered a punitive expedition to round up Aboriginal people thought to be responsible for conflict with settlers to the area.

Monument commemorating the Aboriginal people killed in the Appin Massacre of 1816.

Appin resident whose witnessed the massacre of Aboriginal people by government forces as a boy and whose famous accounts were published almost 90 years after the event.

Soldier who was in Australian between 1814 and 1819. He arrived in 1814 on the same ship as convict artist Joseph Lycett and worked with him on views of the colony. In 1816 he led the regiment responsible for the Appin Massacre. From later in 1816 he served as the commandant…

A Dharawal man, Gogi met with Governor Macquarie at the Cowpastures in 1810. In 1816, the governor gave him a 'King Plate', identifying him as 'King of the Georges River'.

Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, Macquarie shaped Sydney's built environment, social structure, financial development and public morals.

Corrangie, called ‘Harry’ by the English settlers, was the husband of Bennelong’s sister Carangarang and known, after Bennelong’s death, as the ‘chief’ of the Burramattagal or Parramatta clan.

Western Sydney is a region of great diversity and complexity: a patchwork of cultures, language, ethnicity, personal histories, religion, education, income and status. On the rural foundation of the large estates granted to early settlers, development in the twentieth century…

The Dharug and Dharawal Aboriginal people along the Georges River had a range of strategies for keeping in touch with their country once Europeans arrived, such as moving around country to avoid danger and travelling to visit important places. Some held onto their country…

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…