Hi everyone, welcome to Snow's History. You know I love an anniversary and that's why

it's very embarrassing that last year we completely missed a very big anniversary, 250th anniversary

of Captain Cook arriving on the east coast of Australia. Captain Cook celebrated wrongly

as it turns out for years as the person who discovered Australia. For generations

has been a sort of unquestioning reverence for Captain Cook in that expedition everything

he achieved, but now on this particular anniversary we are more open to hearing other points of view.

Professor John Maynard is a war of my man from New South Wales. He's one of the world's most

respected voices on Indigenous histories in Aboriginal Australia and I wanted to get

him on the podcast to talk about Captain Cook, what that voyage meant and to the time has

meant for subsequent generations and what perhaps it might mean today add into the future.

It was a great pleasure talking to Professor Maynard, he's the director of Aboriginal

History at the Wall of Tukon Institute and he thinks that it's about time we're an honest

reckoning with Cook's legacy and that's essential to charting away forward. If you want to

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