Melville, Island 37
meteors 397
Miller, Lieutenant Henry 182
mining industry 373–4
Mitchell, Thomas 196
‘mobile agriculture’ 27, 49–52 see also living larders
Monkhouse, Jonathon 115, 119
‘Monster Petition’ 284
moral omnivores 377–9
Moreton Bay Harbour 3, 68, 112
Motuhora 103
Mundy, Clyde 267
Murdohardono, Dodid 394
Murray-Darling system 278, 333
Murray River 54, 393
murrnong (yam daisy) 42, 44, 51, 160 185, 192, 242
Murrumbidgee River 328–31, 333
Musquito 37
mutton 248–50
Nanberry 151, 159
National Colonisation Society 181
national disasters
acceptance 342–5
response to 339, 342
vulnerability 392–3
National Parks and Wildlife 55, 355
National Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Australia see Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
native endangered species 357–9, 365–6, 380
prediction 402–3
native ground covers 3, 190, 192, 200–1
native wasps 364
navigation 74
navigators 71
Neanderthals 16, 24, 370
Neptune 162, 163
Netherlands 343
New Britain 88
New Guinea 25, 33, 34, 77, 85, 90, 93, 104, 111, 118, 308, 310, 311–12, 318–20 see also ‘koala soldiers’; Kokoda
Japanese advance 318–20
risk to Australia from Japan 313–15
New Hebrides 76
New Holland 85, 88, 91, 93, 104, 104, 105, 108, 118
New South Wales 24, 166
census 171
New South Wales Corps 165, 194, 306
New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority 240
New South Wales Land and Environment Court 238
New South Wales Rural Fire Service 344
New Zealand 19, 81, 84, 86, 94, 102, 103, 105, 111, 133
Newfoundland 93, 97
Ngaanyatjarra people 28
Ngarigo people 27, 35
Ngunawal people 27, 35
Nicobar Islands 87
Nom Chong 204
Norfolk Island 148, 154
nuclear power 402
Nuyts, Pieter 79
Nyungar people 27
Oondooroo Station 286
Ophir goldfields 213
optimism 384
oral tradition 45, 70
‘Orangatangs’ 172
Orange 213
Oxford Concise Australian National Dictionary 251
Pacific Islands 394–5
Pacific Ocean 85, 91, 95, 99–100, 120–1
Pakistan 79, 80, 90
Palliser, Sir Hugh 93, 95
pandemic prediction 396
Papua New Guinea 14
Highlands people 16
Parkes, Henry 264–5, 279, 283
Parr, William 154
Parramatta River 139
Pasley, Captain 232
‘Past Carin’’ 266
Paterson, Banjo 272
Patyegarang 160–1
Peace Preservation Act 1894 (Qld) 286
Pearl Harbor 310, 313, 319
Peel, Thomas 180
pellagra 146, 159, 164
Pemulwuy 160
Pera 787
Perth 68, 89, 174, 201
Perth Migration Committee 176
pesticides 381
pests 187, 380
Philippines 15, 88, 93
Aeta people 16
Phillip, Captain 129, 130, 131, 133, 137, 141, 144, 145, 146, 149–50, 153–4, 160, 161, 163, 168, 194
pigweed 43
Pitcairn Island 154
Plumwood, Val 375
Plymouth 1, 98, 129
Point Hicks 105
pollution of waterways 363–4
Polo, Marco 73, 75–6, 80, 91
Book About the Variety of the World 75
Polynesian colonisation 19–20
Port Jackson 92, 111, 134–5, 144
Port Macquarie 166
Port Moresby 311, 313, 314, 315, 318, 320
Portugal 74–5
possums 28, 52, 136, 169, 200
Powell, Henry 233–4
predator birds 359–60
Prince of Wales 130, 132
Ptolemy, Claudius 66, 76
pumpkin 250–4
Australian varieties 252–3
peeling 253
scones, recipe 256
Queanbeyan Age 253
Queensland blue pumpkin 253, 257
Quong Tart 204
rabbits 275–7, 295
racism 45–6, 204
Raffles Bay 37
rainfall 200, 203, 213–14, 237, 268, 273, 328–9, 334–5
predictions 340–1
records 266–7
rats 360–1
Rede, Commissioner Robert 226, 229, 230
refugees 390–1
Reidsdale 185
renewable energy 381, 402
Rice, Donna Maree 336
Rice, Jordan Lucas 336
Ridderschap van Holland 88
Rio de Janeiro 99, 126, 131, 138
roaring forties 3, 78
Rodney 286
Roebuck 88
root rot (Phytophthora cinnamoni) 362
Rose Hill (Parramatta) 145, 164, 165
Ross, Henry 229
Ross, Major Robert 137, 144, 167, 168
Rottnest 88
Rotz, Jean 72
Royal Navy 93, 129, 130
Royal Society 93, 97
Ruse, James 139, 164
Sahul 14
Scarborough 130, 162, 163
scones, pumpkin 254–7
recipe 256
Scotland 176
scurvy 37, 51, 69, 96, 131, 141, 143, 146, 157, 159, 164
sea levels 25–6, 343, 393–4
Second Fleet 130, 162–3, 165, 170, 206
Seekamp, Henry 235
‘selector’ holdings 274
Shauer, Amy 259
Shearers’ Union 285
sheep 188–92, 196–7, 198, 199–200, 205–9, 243–5 see also mutton, 349
Great Drought 273
shell shock 298–9, 302
shelter 27
Shipwrights’ Union 285
Sierra Leone 161
Silesia 181
Silk Road 17
Singapore 313, 315
smallpox 151
Smythe, George 106
snakes 48, 360–1
Snipers’ Shots 304
Snowy Mountains 24, 35
Solander, Dr 97, 98, 99, 106, 108, 112
solar power 381, 402
soup kitchens 271, 278
South Australia 180–1
Southern Ocean 20, 81–2, 92, 98, 104, 121, 126, 132, 175
Spain 76
The Spectator 180
Spice Islands 2, 65, 66, 67, 74, 75, 77, 88
spices 2–3, 64, 66–7, 90
spotted quolls 357–9
squatters 195–6, 198, 201–2, 203, 206–7, 272
Squatters’ Association 285
starvation of early colony myth 123–69
sterlings 174
Stirling, John 201
storm surges 5, 393–4, 400–1
strikes 285–6
stringybark twine 386–7
Suez Canal 204
Sullivan, Alan 325
Sullivan, Dr Martin 278
Sullivan, John ‘Pa Jack’ 298–9
Sumatra 67, 74, 75
Surprize 162
sustainability 380–1
Swan River 89, 201
Sydney
slums 279
Sydney Cove 139–40, 150, 157, 166
&n
bsp; Sydney Gazette 171, 334
Sydney Harbour 3, 68, 79, 123, 165
Japanese submarine attack 317
Sydney Heads 111
Sydney Mail 261
Sydney Morning Herald 329
Tahiti 94, 98, 100, 101, 120
Taiwan 15
Tank Stream 134, 148
Tasman, Captain Abel 80, 81–6, 88, 94, 103, 104
Tasmania 14, 24, 25, 28, 91, 357
Palawa clans 35
Van Diemen’s Land 83–4, 104, 105, 108, 121, 171, 187, 221, 222
Tasmanian tigers 357
temperance movement 264, 281–2
Tench, Captain Watkin 145, 149, 158, 159, 167
Tenerife 131
Terra Australis Incognita 18, 65, 72, 76, 80, 81–5, 91, 94, 122 see also Great South Land
terra nullius 120–1
terrapaths 383
t’Gulden Zeepaerdt 79
Thijssen, François 79
3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Australian Division 290–4
Thomas, Captain 231
Tierra del Fuego 99
Timor 14, 74
Tiwi Islanders 37
Payungka Tjapangati, Timmy 28
Tom, William and James 212, 213
Tonga 85, 104
tools 26
Torrens, Colonel Robert 181
Torres Strait 86, 93, 104, 118
Torres Strait Islands 66
Townsville 317, 336
toxoplasmosis 356, 358
trade winds 20, 77–8
Traill, Donald 163
tree changers 208
trepang fishermen 18, 19, 38, 68, 90
‘true merinos’ see squatters
tsunami prediction 395
Tulloch, Captain 293
Tupaia 102, 107
Twofold Bay 37
United States 174
van Colster, Captain 77
van Diemen, Governor 81, 86
Van Diemen’s Land see Tasmania
Vanuatu 76, 394–5
Venus, transit of 94, 101
Vern, Frederick 227
Victoria 24
Victoria Cross 324
Visscher, Frans Jacobszoon 81
Waaksamheyd 164
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon 180–1
Letter from Sydney 180
Walker, General 308
wallabies 52, 117, 135, 146, 200, 349, 350, 354
Waramurungundju 16
warfare 36–9, 391–2
warrigal greens 124, 141, 142
water sources/supplies 44, 110–11, 133, 191, 277, 332
pollution 363–4
weeds 362–3, 380
Wentworth, William Charles 65, 202
Wessel Islands 72
Western Australia 24, 35, 180, 201
King Sound 86
Shark Bay 78, 88
western red kangaroo 21
whale feasts 135
whalers and sealers 37, 92, 172, 196, 197–8, 201
wheat 140, 150, 244–5 273
While the Billy Boils 266
White, Surgeon John 133, 134–5, 137, 141, 142, 146, 146, 149, 151, 159, 164, 167–8
Wiradjuri people 329–30
flood warnings from 332
Wolfe, General 93
wombats 8, 41, 190, 200, 268, 271, 274, 288, 350, 352, 367, 403
mange and toxoplasmosis 354–7
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) 281, 282, 283
workers’ organisations 285
yabbies 243
yam daisy (Microseris lanceolata) 42, 136, 346 see also murrnong
Yarri 329–31, 333
yeast 245
Young Italy 219
Young, Nicholas ‘Young Nick’ 102
Yuin 28, 35, 37
Yung-lo, Emperor 73
Zacuto, Professor Abraham 74
Zheng He 73
About the Author
Jackie French is one of Australia’s most renowned authors. Best-selling, award-winning, much loved and highly respected, her vast body of work contains both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the past 60,000 years of Australian history. Her non-fiction also includes an eight-volume history of Australia for young people as well as other works of natural history.
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