When the Gweagal people saw white sails approaching, they thought spirits of the dead were coming—and death did arrive with Captain Cook.
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A museum object becomes a sharp case study in ownership, memory, and colonial history.
The episode turns a single object into a wider argument about custody, memory, and who gets to name the past. It opens on the eerie arrival of British sails off Botany Bay and keeps circling the shield's contested story, so the history stays tied to land, witnesses, and the…
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You want one object to open up a colonial theft story.
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