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When we celebrate Captain Cook's voyage, let's mark the epic journey of a Wati Wati man also

  • Written by Stephen Morey, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University
Nicholas Chevalier, Mallee scrub, Murray River, NSW, watercolour, 1871.National Library of Australia

By now, most of us would know that 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s voyage along the East Coast of Australia. The federal government has allocated $48.7 million to commemorate the occasion, with a replica of Cook’s HMB...

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