Dharawal the first contact people: 250 years of black and white relations

By John Veage
Updated April 17 2019 - 4:41pm, first published April 15 2019 - 10:47am
First contact: Bruce Watts at the Sutherland Shire Historical Museum with his latest book.Picture John Veage
First contact: Bruce Watts at the Sutherland Shire Historical Museum with his latest book.Picture John Veage

Lieutenant Cook's brief eight day stop-over at Botany Bay in May 1770 heralded endless possibilities for the British Empire but it also marked the beginning of the disintegration of a culture that was thousands of years old.

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