Australian History: Indigenous Perspective

  • 70,000 BCE

    Earliest evidence of indigenous peoples in Australia.

  • The Capt. Arrives

    Captain Cook arrives in botany bay.
  • The Arrival

    First Fleet arrives
  • Martial law is declared against Indigenous Australians

  • Truganini meets George Augustus Robertson

  • The wholesale expansion of British colonisation into Australia

  • Coranderrk

    Government reserve for Indigenous communities
  • Coranderrk closes

  • Day of Mourning

  • Freedom Ride

  • establishment of Aboriginal tent embassy

  • Mabo case

  • Northern Territory Intervention

  • THE Apology