The first set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019 to usher in the New Year. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here.
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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,…
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It’s hard putting a ‘like’ on a bleak series such as this, that they strike a chord with so many shows with what disdain we have all learned to treat the State\banks and Academia – ER and similar movements seem the only way forward.
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