Hidden in Plain View

<p>Contrary to what you may think local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip’s arrival in Sydney in 1788.</p><p>Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record re-emerging early in the twentieth century. What happened to Sydney’s indigenous people between the devastating impact of white settlement and increased government intervention a century later?</p><p><em>Hidden in Plain View</em> shows that Aboriginal people did not disappear. They may have been ignored in colonial narratives but maintained a strong bond with the coast and its resources and tried to live on their own terms.</p><p>This original and important book tells this powerful story through individuals and brings a poorly understood period of Sydney’s shared history back into view. Its readers will never look at Sydney in the same way.</p>