Setting, Country, and Historical Context (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Short-lived colonial label for inner Brisbane/Newstead area

Turrbal, Yuggera, and Yugambeh peoples

Indigenous name for the Brisbane River

Traditional name for Brisbane

Turrbal warrior hanged in 1855

Aboriginal trackers recruited from distant regions by colonisers

Sentient, relational entity that is kin, not just land

Shows dispossession as ongoing, not merely historical

Approx. 2024, coinciding with Brisbane's bicentennial

Microcosm of ongoing colonialism, mirrors colonial jails