Ah – finally. The World of Hurt webinar (many thanks to @fang for showing me how to do this).
Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians
Hulton Archive / Getty Images We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal people in the Sydney region began, just 16 months after Europeans arrived on the First Fleet. Little is known of the true scale of the epidemic,…










