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January 26 has always been a contested day. Darren England/AAP

January 25, 2023

Australia Day wasn’t always January 26, but it was always an issue

Benjamin T. Jones, CQUniversity Australia

Australia Day has not always been celebrated on January 26, and the meaning of the date has been contested historically and today.

April 24, 2020

Buried under colonial concrete, Botany Bay has even been robbed of its botany

Rebecca Hamilton, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Dan Penny, University of Sydney; Josephine Gillespie, University of Sydney, and Shane Ingrey, UNSW Sydney

If we want to conserve ecosystems that escaped European exploitation and mismanagement, we must start listening to environmental histories to compliment scientific research.

The British First Fleet knew little of conditions in Port Jackson, later Sydney Cove, before their arrival. George Edwards Peacock, State Library of New South Wales.

April 1, 2018

Black skies and raging seas: how the First Fleet got a first taste of Australia’s unforgiving climate

Joelle Gergis, The University of Melbourne

When the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Cove in 1788, they entered an ancient and unforgiving landscape. A new book charts Australians’ relationship with one of the world’s most volatile climates.

Aboriginal elder Major Sumner sits outside Liverpool’s World Museum with a box containing the skull of an Australian indigenous person, taken from Australia between 1902 and 1904. Phil Noble/Reuters

December 1, 2016

Museums are returning indigenous human remains but progress on repatriating objects is slow

Myles Russell Cook, The University of Melbourne and Lynette Russell, Monash University

The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains. It needs more debate, and more creative interventions to move beyond the current impasse.

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