Happy People: From Botany Bay to Appin - Settler Perspectives on Indigenous Australians

Less than sixty years after the ships of the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove, John Eyre wrote that Indigenous Australians were 'strangers in their own land'. Also, he wrote that 'hungry, and famished, they wander about begging'. How did the lives of Indigenous Australians deteriorate so quickly?

With this question in mind, Happy People traces the perspectives of settlers on Indigenous Australians, from the first settlement during 1788 until the military excursions and Governor Macquarie'...