Voices and Country: Ngurra, First Nations Defeat

Abstract

The Ngurra community has been on the land for 70,000 years and the contribution goes from medicine to food. Even in architecture, the invasion not only took the land but also destroyed them. They have covered millions of plants and weed out the poisons. This migrated community changed the barren lands of Eden to liveable space, they had a peculiar way of having urban designs, planning of architectures and even the art in the public form. During 1788, post the war The British wanted to take over the land to build prisons and have the prisoners in the island. The population of Aboriginal's were more than 250,000 later the colonists killed many due to the unnamed disease and refused to treat them.