February The first female convicts arrived at Port Jackson. The Court of Criminal Justice Jurisdiction sat for the first time in the colony. June The last of the cattle that arrived on the First Fleet strayed from the settlement. Some of the animals were still being found seven years later. November A colonial settlement was established at Rose Hill. December Governor Phillip ordered the capture of Arabanoo, a Cadigal man, to find out about Cadigal language and customs.
Downloads s overview Pdf 28kb Word 86kb. Explore The Site Themes. What, if any, have been the long-term effects of convict transportation on Australian society? Do you agree with the National Museum of Australia that the arrival of the First Fleet is a defining moment in Australian history? Explain your answer.
Look carefully at all the images for this defining moment. Tell this story in pictures by placing them in whatever order you think works best. Write a short caption under each image. What else would you like to know about this defining moment? Write a list of questions and then share these with your classmates.
As a group create a final list of three questions and conduct some research to find the answers. The fleet was made up of 11 ships carrying convicts from Britain to Australia. Their arrival changed forever the lives of the Eora people, the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land in the Sydney area, and began waves of convict transportation that lasted until What were the main ways Aboriginal people were affected by the arrival of Phillip and the First Fleet?
Colour publication printed for the th Anniversary Celebrations of Australia, Captain Arthur Phillip is featured. Britain used transportation to distant lands as a way of getting rid of prisoners.
After Britain lost its American colonies in the jails of England were full. The British decided to begin transporting prisoners to Australia, which had recently been claimed for the British Crown by Lieutenant James Cook.
Prisoners also known as convicts were transported for many reasons but mainly for crimes that we might consider to be minor today, such as stealing. Convicts who were transported were usually poor, often from the large industrial cities and were mostly from England with a large minority from Ireland and Scotland. This was the beginning of convict settlement in Australia.
Captain Arthur Phillip was an experienced naval officer who became first governor of the colony of New South Wales. He faced many challenges in the early years of settlement. He was prepared to punish people who broke the rules, but also rewarded convicts and free settlers who behaved well. Almost straight away, the new colony faced starvation. Their descendants, who probably now number over a million, are now to be found all over the country and in many other parts of the world.
Descendants of those resilient and hard-working pioneers remember with pride the contribution their ancestors made to the European beginnings of this nation and will always give January 26 each year the respect and honour that is its due. In keeping with an upsurge of interest in family history, descendants formed the Fellowship of First Fleeters in The older members of the Fellowship have been disappointed to hear the statistics that show nearly 40 per cent of today's Australians do not know the significance of January Could it be that those represented by these figures have forgotten what they learnt in primary school?
After all, the First Fleet and the convict system have always been taught and remain requisite topics in the national curriculum for years 3 and 4. Then again, the large number of recent arrivals without a background in Australian history may have had a strong bearing on the statistics.
For those with First Fleet ancestry the real hero, the absolute celebrity of the whole venture, must be Arthur Phillip himself. His superb leadership, his farming and naval background, his fortitude and sense of duty through hardship and famine, his obvious benevolence towards his convict settlers, and above all his friendliness shown to the Indigenous people whose clan territory and hunting and fishing grounds would ultimately be under threat, endeared him to all.
Without him Australia, as it eventually became known, may not have achieved the great renown by which it is known today. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Phillip was to be governor of the settlement, which was made up of convicted criminals, their Marine minders and overseeing naval officers, with some family members Its success is in no small measure due to the outstanding skills and expertise of Phillip, his fellow officers and the crews assigned to the task.
Celebrated from the start Even though the entire fleet, having travelled the last leg across the Indian Ocean in two separate flotillas, had assembled by January 20, , in Botany Bay, it was its relocation to the more suitable Port Jackson on January 26 that has always been commemorated right from the outset.
My grandfather protested against Australia Day in
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