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Bathurst by George French Angas, 1851

The establishment of the inland town of Bathurstin 1815 was one of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s many achievements and marked the beginning of the spread of European settlement west of the Blue Mountains. However, it came at a tremendous cost to the local Aboriginal population

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National Library of Australia, obj-135317353

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