wrestling with our historical assumptions through the entangled lives of two very different men
- Written by: Anna Clark, Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
A portrait of Bennelong, pre 1806, attributed to George Charles Jenner and William Waterhouse and on right, Captain Arthur Phillip, 1786, painted by Francis Wheatley.Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales/Wikimedia CommonsDespite the inherent chance and coincidence of Australian history, there’s a certain sense of inevitability...