HIST1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ballarat Reform League, Mei Quong Tart, Eddie Mabo
• Week Four
• Lecture 4.1: On the Frontier
• Lecture Summary
• Part One:
• The Fotie
• Revisionist history
• Contested history
• Historiography
• Part Two:
• Colonial expansion and violence
• Tatis of a?
• Terror
• Key Questions
1) What is eat the te fotie ad how does it relate to the Australian experience?
2) Was the frontier violent? If so, what was the cause of violence?
3) Ho hae histoias itepetatios of the fotie haged?
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PART ONE
• The Fotie
• Boundary between:
• nations
• known & unknown
• Edge of civilisation
• Unconquered land, wilderness
• Lawless
• A meeting place
• Movement, expansion, invasion
• Fotie Thesis
• Frederick Jackson Turner (USA), 1890s
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• An Australian frontier?
• 1890s - the bush / the outback
• Russel Ward , Australian Legend, 1958: bushman, collectivist not individual.
• Revising the Frontier, 1970s
• The Geat Austalia “ilee
• The th of peaeful settleet
• Revisionist history
• Henry Reynolds
• Contested history
• Geoffe Blaie Blak aad histo
• He ‘eolds: Fogotte Wa 2013
• Mabo – High Court decision 1992 (Eddie Koiki Mabo, Meriam)
• Native Title 1993
• History Wars
• Henry Reynolds
• 20,000 (1 white settler = 10 Aboriginal Australians). (2.6% 1788 popN)
• estimate
• Keith Windschuttle:
• Lack of documentary evidence
• fabrication
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PART TWO
• Coloial Epasio…
o 1788-1800: Sydney, Parramatta, Hawkesbury
o 1802-03: Matthe Flides & Austalia
o 1802: Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
o 1803: Port Phillip Bay (Melbourne)
o 1804: Newcastle
o 1813: Blue Mountains & Bathurst
o 1829: Swan River Colony (Perth)
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o 1832: Moreton Bay (Qld)
o 1835: Port Phillip (Vic)
o 1836: South Australia
• Settlers, Squatters & Sheep
• “heep the shok toops of lad seizue (Maityre)
• Bigge report 1822
• Free migrants & assisted passage
• Population growth:
• 1820: 30,000
• 1850: 400,000
• Wool:
• 1830: 1/10th UK supply
• 1850: ½ UK supply; 90% exports
• “uattes: illegal oupa to laful possessio
• Settlers, Squatters & Sheep
• Violence, Law, War
• Eal Iidets…
• Hawkesbury Wars, 1799
• Illawarra clashes 1790s
• Risdon, VDL (Tas), 1804
• Black Wars/Martial Laws
• Negotiation (Batman treaty, 1835)
• Feast Days, Parramatta
• 1824 Bathurst Martial Law declared
• 1828 Tasmania Martial Law declared
• Key conflicts
• Battle of Pinjarra WA 1834
• Slaughterhouse Creek NSW 1838
• Myall Creek massacre NSW 1838
• Rufus River SA 1841
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Document Summary
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