Colonists upended Aboriginal farming, growing grain and running sheep on rich yamfields, and cattle on arid grainlands
- Written by Bill Gammage, Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
Yam daisies on the left, cattle on the rightCutting out the cattle, Kangatong/Eugene Von Guerard, 1856 , CC BY-SAFirst Nations readers are advised this article contains references to colonial violence against First Nations people.
In 1788 the First Fleet brought two bulls and four cows from the Cape of Good Hope and put them on grass on Bennelong...
