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Time was when an introduction to the making of Australia was unproblematic: the modern story of Australia began with James Cook claiming New South Wales for Britain in 1770 and the British convict settlement at Sydney Cove in 1788. Aborigines were omitted from the story. Thus, Walter Murdoch’s school text Making of Australia: An Introductory History (1917) argued that ‘when people talk about “the history of Australia” they mean the history of the...
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