Assorted Bastards of Australian History

Cook looms as large in Australian statuary he does nomenclature and, perhaps especially, psyche. To those who still deify him the explorer at vanguard of white-hatted colonial Enlightenment remains Neil Armstrong his day – sailed where dragons be to bring English light and civility oldest continuous civilisation on planet. others this continent, is a sinister bogey man monster, doorman ushered later colonisation with all its extreme violence, dispossession ills east coast arrival 1770 which first act was personally shoot two Gweagal men Kamai.