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\u2018The First Fleet\u2019 - the eleven ships carrying around 1400 people from Britain, most of whom were convicted criminals - landed in New South Wales on 18th January, 1788.\nAustralia had been home to indigenous people for at least 50,000 years - but was a barren and shocking destination for 'the poms', who\u2019d endured an epic 252-day voyage to get there; a journey about which Robert Hughes wrote: \u201cbefore them stretched the awesome lonely void of the Indian and Southern oceans, and beyond that lay nothing they could imagine.\u201d\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explore how Captain Arthur Phillip motivated his prisoners to build a new settlement; unpick what Captain Cook got wrong about Botany Bay; and explain why the descendants of convicts in modern-day Oz maintain a certain swagger\u2026\xa0\nFurther Reading:\n\u2022 \u2018From Captain Cook to the First Fleet: how Botany Bay was chosen over Africa as a new British penal colony\u2019 (The Conversation, 2020):\xa0https://theconversation.com/from-captain-cook-to-the-first-fleet-how-botany-bay-was-chosen-over-africa-as-a-new-british-penal-colony-128002\n\u2022 \u2018Australian Penal Colonies\u2019 (Simple History, 2020):\xa0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS1072MshS0\n\u2022 \u2018Australian Genocide: How It Happened And How It Haunts Us To This Day\u2019 (All That\u2019s Interesting, 2016):\xa0https://allthatsinteresting.com/australia-genocide\xa0\nFor bonus material and to support the show, visit\xa0Patreon.com/Retrospectors\nWe'll be back tomorrow! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts:\xa0podfollow.com/Retrospectors\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2021.\ufeff\n#1700s #Crime #UK #Australia\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices