Dharawal: The First Contact People manta ray By: Gerry Swan

By: Gerry Swan

Size: 260x260x65mm

Plankton are the aquatic version of a canary in a coal mine

but especially so to Indigenous Australians who have had a special relationship with this curious animal for thousands of years

Dharawal: The First Contact People manta ray By: Gerry Swan250 years ago the first encounter between British and Aboriginal people on the east coast of Australian occurred at Botany Bay in 1770. For the British, it heralded the beginning of endless possibilities for the empire. For Aboriginal people, it marked the beginning of the decimation of cultures that were thousands of years old. The traditional country of these people, the Dharawal, were the coastal lands from Botany Bay to the Shoalhaven district and