Samuel Watson's powerful poem commemorates John Oxley's landing, aiming to include the voices of First Nations people.

By Samuel Wagan Watson

(With some additional translations from the Yugambeh dialect…One of the ancestral languages of the author’s honourable Elders…)

Landing Echo

View of Charters Towers by William Jamieson Allom, oil on board, 1895

Hustling Hinkler [foxtrot song] / lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert ; music by Abel Baer.

Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, May 10, 1928 showing a promotion of the Queensland Country Women’s Association by artist Garnet Agnew

A Correct globe with the new discoveries, 1774. It is the first globe showing Captain James Cook’s voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771

Proposed design by architect Henry Edwin Bridges for the Servant's Home, Ann Street, Brisbane, 1 September 1865. Bridges won the design competition for this work. The building was extended by Richard Gailey, 1877-78 and became the School of Arts.

State Brand jam label, one of several enterprises established by the Queensland Government after the First World War to support Queensland producers and consumers

The people of Mapoon were forced off their land in 1963. [Poster] The land was leased to mining companies. The people of Mapoon struggled to take re-possession of their land. Mrs Jean Jimmy and Jerry Hudson, at Mapoon after the return to Mapoon in 1974. 

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View from Miss Bedfords Garden, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. M 1629 Sir John Goodwin Addresses and Albums, image 1629- 3v000r007 [watercolour on paper on board].

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