HSTY1089 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eora, National Memory, Stolen Generations
19 Aug 2018
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Sydney had 600 acres under cultivation in 1792, when governor philip went home, and it was agrarian without any heavy industry etc. The new governor john hunter did not arrive until 1795 and during this time the. Marines took over more and more land despite not being allowed to. By the end of the rst decade in the 1800s free convicts were able to gain small parcels of land and enjoy economic independence. Children of convicts walked and talked di erently being seen as healthy and better fed than there counterparts in europe. People upheld womens rights to property independent of their husbands because in this society agency was more easily attainable. The nature of convicts establishing the state may mean that australians now desire a more paternalistic and interventionist state because the institutions were set up to provide that.
