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This collection focuses on the European mapping and naming of the Australian continent during the 17th and 18th centuries. It highlights the motivations and achievements of Dutch and British explorers, including Abel Tasman and James Cook. It incorporates maps, texts, and a painting.
Australian Aboriginal History Timeline is an extensive timeline, beginning with Ancient history and moving right through to the present day. From Creative Spirits website, a personal project of Jens Korff.
Map of Indigenous Australia (AIATSIS)
60,000+ years ago to 1788 - (Working with Indigenous Australians)
Aboriginal society prior to British settlement (Working with Indigenous Australians)
Introduction to Indigenous Australia (Australian Museum)
Traditional Aboriginal burning (Government of Western Australia)
Did Aboriginal people and Asian people trade before European settlement in Darwin? (ABC New
Aboriginal People and Place Sydney's Aboriginal history
The Diet of Aboriginal People before European Contact
Indigenous Australians Information on The Dreaming, hunting, food, culture and languages.
Dust Echoes Animated Dreaming stories.
First Australians Episode 1. They have come to stay.
Australian Geographic. Top 10 Aboriginal bush medicines Scroll down the page to see the different medicines.
The expansion of British settlements, including the establishment of colonies in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), Adelaide, Moreton Bay (Brisbane) and Port Phillip (Melbourne), resulted in competition over land and resources, and quickly lead to violence.
“The Government is fast disposing of the land occupied by the natives from time immemorial. In addition to which settlers under the sanction of government may establish themselves in any part of this extensive territory and since the introduction of the numerous flocks and herds. . . a serious loss has been sustained by the natives without an equivalent being rendered. Their territory is not only invaded, but their game is driven back, their marnong and other valuable roots are eaten by the white man's sheep and their deprivation, abuse and miseries are daily increasing.”
Francis Tuckfield, Wesleyan Missionary, 1837
Source : Australians together