Captain Cook has been celebrated, wrongly, as the first European to discover Australia but many now believe it is time to reappraise his legacy particularly in light of the devastating effect it had on the native Aboriginal people of Australia. Professor John Maynard is a Worimi man and Director of Aboriginal History at The Wollotuka Institute. He joins the podcast to explain what Cook’s landing at Botany Bay meant for the Aboriginal people at the time and right through the generations to today and into the future. He believes it’s time that we had an honest reckoning with Cook’s legacy and that this is essential for reconciliation and creating a better way forward.
Listen to the podcast as part of our article Cook – Man or Myth.
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