Premium Only Content
Australia did not exist before 26 January 1788 - Part 1: The Voyage Out (Revised 2024)
Part 1: The Voyage Out
This claim sounds absurd until one considers what a nation is. I unpack the concept of nation in two parts. Part 1 provides a brief account of the expeditions that searched for the mythical Land of the South and the eventual discovery of a continental mass below New Guinea and the Indonesian islands. It was Captain James Cook’s crucial voyages of discovery (1769-70) that gave definitive form to the continental mass and the islands close by. After the British government decided to establish a settlement on the continent now named New Holland, a fleet of 11 ships set sail for Botany Bay in what Cook had named New South Wales. Captain Arthur Phillip, the First Fleet's Leader, rejected Botany Bay as a place suitable for settlement. After some reconnoitring, he chose a cove in Port Jackson. Part 2 describes the process of settlement.
Text for the presentation can be found here:
http://www.gerardcharleswilson.com/australia-did-not-exist-before-26-january-1788/
My essay, 'Edmund Burke on What it Means to be a People', should be read with my two-part presentation, Australia did not exist before 26 January 1788.
http://www.gerardcharleswilson.com/edmund-burke-on-what-it-means-to-be-people/
-
33:49
Quite Frankly
14 hours agoThe Christmas Eve Midnight Telethon
21.9K2 -
2:12:46
Price of Reason
13 hours agoAmber Heard BACKS Blake Lively Lawsuit Against Justin Baldoni! Is Disney CEO Bob Iger in TROUBLE?
10.2K5 -
1:01:17
The StoneZONE with Roger Stone
8 hours agoChristmas Edition: Why the Panama Canal is Part of the America First Agenda | The StoneZONE
60.9K22 -
LIVE
LFA TV
18 hours agoLFA TV CHRISTMAS EVE REPLAY
1,310 watching -
4:33:48
tacetmort3m
1 day ago🔴 LIVE - THE ZONE KEEPS PULLING ME BACK - STALKER 2 - PART 15
48K12 -
22:45
Brewzle
15 hours agoI Went Drinking In A Real Bourbon Castle
32.4K3 -
48:36
PMG
1 day ago $2.50 earned"Parkland Parent Speaks Out On Kamala Harris Using Victims"
25.2K3 -
4:06
The Lou Holtz Show
14 hours agoCoach Lou Holtz’s Heartfelt Christmas Message 🎄 | Family, Faith & Notre Dame Spirit 💚 #christmas
18.9K -
51:35
Dr Steve Turley
1 day ago $18.71 earnedROSEANNE BARR - Her Journey, TRUMP, and the MAGA GOLDEN AGE! [INTERVIEW]
54K51 -
57:38
The Tom Renz Show
12 hours agoMerry Christmas - The Tom Renz Show Christmas
91K17