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Two students looking up at the Madjeri at the Museum of Sydney.
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The Water We Share: Past, Present and Future

Learn about traditional madjeri making with Gweagal clan leader Uncle Rod and how conservation works at Vaucluse House are preserving the estate’s waterways for the resident eels

Two people inside the Tank Stream
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Tank Stream – before and after 1788

Why did the First Fleet land at Sydney Cove in 1788?

At the southern paddock waterfall, Vaucluse House
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Waterway investigation

Use this resource to conduct your own investigation of a local waterway

Immigration Barracks
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Timeline: introduction to the site

Introduction part 1

Artist Jonathan Jones with the new installation 'Untitled (maraong manaouwi)' in the forecourt of Hyde Park Barracks.
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Multiple points of view: introduction to the museum

Introduction part 2

Family visiting the Hyde Parks Barracks
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Becoming a Convict: Caught, Tried and Sentenced

Chapter 1

A student examines the scale-model of St James being built as part of the Home: Convicts, Migrants & First People Learning program at Hyde Park Barracks
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Building Sydney: Convict Worksites

Chapter 2

Installation view of gallery, Expanding the Colony: Convict Impacts on Aboriginal Country, located on Level 3 of the main building of Hyde Park Barracks
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Expanding the Colony: Convict Impacts on Aboriginal Country

Chapter 3

Students examining the convict artefacts on Level 2 of the new Hyde Park Barracks experience on the Home: Convicts, Migrants & First People Learning program
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Tightening the Grip: Life in the Convict System

Chapter 4