Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-242) and index.
A place for stories Captain Cook, colonial origins and hairy wild men -- Sydney's backdoor Isolating the city's unwanted at Botany Bay -- Boomerangs for sale Tourism in the birthplace of the nation -- A little piece of France Commemorating the French at Botany Bay -- From shantytowns to suburbs Botany Bay's residential landscape -- The past as future Industrial development and environmental politics -- Remembering dispossession and survival Botany Bay stories revisited.
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The cultural history of one of the most significant Australian historical sites. From Captain Cook's first landfall to the present it brings together the histories of white and black Australia.
Banks, Joseph,1743-1820.
Cook, James,1728-1779.
King, Billy.
La Perouse, comte de, 1741-1788, Jean-Francois de Galaup.
Mathews, R. H., (Robert Hamilton),1841-1918.
Phillip, Arthur,1738-1814.
Timbery, Joe.
New South Wales.
New South Wales., Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983.
Animals - Marine mammals - Whales.
Art - Rock art.
Culture - Relationship to land.
Dharawal / Tharawal / Dariwal people (S59) (NSW SI56-09)
Economic sectors - Tourism.
Environment - Conservation.
Government policy - Assimilation.
Habitation - Camps - Fringe and town.
History - Oral history.
Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Australia Day / Survival Day.
Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Memorials and commemorations.
Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Millennium, 2000 / 2001.
Race relations - Racial discrimination - Housing.
Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping.
Race relations - Reconciliation.
Race relations - Representation - Literature.
Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850.
Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European.
Settlement and contacts - Resettlement and removals.
Stories and motifs - Weapons - Boomerangs.
Botany Bay Region (N.S.W.), History.
Botany Bay (N.S.W.), Botany Bay Region (N.S.W.), History.