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Isabella left Cork, Ireland in August 1823. [6] An early outbreak of scurvy and a plot to cause a mutiny was put down during the voyage, and she arrived in Sydney on 16 December. [6] She embarked 201 male convicts and had five convict deaths en route. [7] Isabella departed Port Jackson on 18 January 1824, bound for Batavia. [10]
Francis Edward de Groot (24 October 1888 – 1 April 1969) was an Irish-Australian soldier and furniture maker. He is best known for dramatically interrupting the official opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, attempting to slash the ribbon with a military sword while on horseback.
The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins (2002) Excerpt about Sydney; Markus, Andrew, James Jupp and Peter McDonald, eds. Australia's Immigration Revolution (2010) Excerpt and text search; O'Farrell, Patrick. The Irish in Australia: 1798 to the Present Day (3rd ed. Cork University Press, 2001)
On 26 January 1788 a landing was made at Sydney Cove. The new colony was formally proclaimed as the Colony of New South Wales on 7 February. Other transport fleets bringing further convicts as well as free settlers to the colony followed. As a result of agitation by the free settlers in Sydney, transportation of convicts to Sydney ended in 1840.
Sydney Harbour from Milsons Point by Tom Roberts, 1897. Artists' camps flourished around Sydney Harbour in the 1880s and 1890s. Sydney's first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette established, edited and distributed by George Howe. It appeared irregularly between 1803 and 1842, but nonetheless provides a valuable source on the early development of ...
University of Technology, Sydney and University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies [122] established. Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre and Powerhouse Museum open. Kay Cottee completes first women's solo non-stop unassisted circumnavigation of world. Peter Sculthorpe's composition Kakadu completed.
Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift's love story is officially going down under! On Thursday morning, Travis touched down in Australia along with his pal, Ross Travis.The day prior, ET reported that ...
The Manus Regional Processing Centre, officially Manus Island Regional Processing Centre (MIRCP), [1] was one of a number of offshore Australian immigration detention facilities [2] created after the Australian Government instituted its Operation Sovereign Borders policy, aimed at stopping maritime arrivals of asylum seekers to Australia. [3]