Expanding the Colony
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A Colonial Eye
Students investigate the role of artists during the early colonial period and consider how they contributed to the development of the colony
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Bailed Up!
Students explore the impact of the gold rush on law and order in the colony of NSW, and of bushrangers on the Australian identity
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Garuwanga Gurad (stories that belong to Country)
During this program at Museum of Sydney, on the site of first Government House, students have a unique opportunity to explore links between Indigenous and European histories, cultures and perspectives in the expanding Sydney colony of the 1800
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Home: Convicts, Migrants and First Peoples
What was it like to be a convict living at the Hyde Park Barracks?