An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 /

Teaching ‘Proper’ Drinking?: Clubs and pubs in Indigenous Australia

“…However, the idyllic archetype relates to a few cultures on one side of the Mediterranean, and even these do not escape the casualties of liver cirrhosis (Douglas 1987: 5, Room & Mäkelä 2000: 481, Blocker et al 2003. In the United Kingdom, a critic of new 24-hour licensing laws that aspired to mimic a European drinking culture, described them as a fantasy based on 'too many Tuscan holidays': longer hours would not mean more sensible drinking, just more drinking (Measham 2006: 259). with raw spirits and one died on the spot (Collins 1971). From 1793, all convicts working for officers were paid partly in rum and by 1796 illicit distillation was widely practised.…”

“…(Rickard 2001: 92) Bennelong later realised that wine itself was not really called daging, but he continued to make a joke of his mistake and to refer to wine in that way, knowing it would provoke a response (Smith 2001, McIntyre 2008). 16 Bennelong was described at the time by diarists such as Watkin Tench and King as someone who drank socially and who held his liquor well; it was later that he either became or was labelled a 'heavy drinker' (Collins 1971, Kenny 1973, Smith 2001. 17 It is ironic that Bennelong was later stereotyped as the first Aboriginal drunk (Sydney Gazette 1813, Kenny 1973: he should be remembered for the much more significant reason of being the first Aboriginal individual to have been taught Europe's most important drinking ritual: the toast (Schivelbusch 1993: 169).…”

Dawes Review 5: Australian Aboriginal Astronomy and Navigation

“…(Collins 1798). Even this fragment contains useful information, telling us that the Eora people believed that the Sun returned to the East over their heads rather than under the ground, as believed by most other groups.…”

“…Even in these cases, east and west are usually associated with the rising and setting positions of the Sun, and the words for east and west are often based on the word for the Sun. Burials were often aligned facing east (Collins 1798;Dunbar 1943;Mathews 1904), whilst initiation sites were often aligned roughly north-south (see Section 7.2). Hamacher et al (2012) have shown that a sample of linear stone arrangements are oriented north-south with an accuracy of a few degrees (see Section 18).…”

Aboriginal Placenames : Naming and re-naming the Australian landscape

“…During the epidemic, a young boy and girl, Nanbaree and Booroong (Arbaroo), were brought into the town (White 1790(White [1962). Both survived the disease and acted as informants and communicators between the two groups for some time (Collins 1798(Collins [1975). The epidemic, however, had a disastrous impact on the local populationin just over a year, well over half the original inhabitants of coastal Sydney were estimated to have died (Phillip 1790b(Phillip [1892).…”