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The British settlers brought new diseases that killed hundreds of Eora – as many as 80 per cent within the first few years. The settlers also took over the Eora people’s land, hunting grounds and waterways,
and most of them had little respect for Eora culture.
Some Eora saw cooperating with the settlers as the best
way to survive, while others decided to fight, and many of the Eora people were killed. Afterwards, the survivors found new ways to live on their traditional land as the city grew across it. On 26 January 1938, 150 years after the first convict ships had arrived, Aboriginal people in Sydney and their supporters organised a Day of Mourning to protest about their treatment. It was an important step towards equal rights for the original peoples of Australia.
By the 1830s, convicts were still being sent to Sydney, but their gruelling three-month journey ended at a flourishing new city. By this time, freed
convicts lived in the city alongside new arrivals from Britain and Ireland, who had come to Sydney for a new life,
as well as Aboriginal people who had come to live and work in the city now that their lands had been taken away.
Age of youngest convict:
9 Number of Aboriginal people living in Sydney today:
Bungaree was born at Broken Bay, to the north of Sydney. When the British arrived, they used his skills to help them
communicate with other Aboriginal groups as they sailed around the coast of Australia. Bungaree acted as a go-between
to help his own community and newcomers to Australia, and often welcomed important visitors when they arrived in Sydney.
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