Transgender Fish, Pride Of A State - The Blue Groper

Blue Hropers Are Born Female, And Then Tirn Into bFlamboyant Copourful Rotund Males Later In Life. For Blue Gropers, Changing Gender Is Just A Matural Ordinary Part Of Life. 

They are Hawmophradites.  The Females Henerally Turn Itno Males  at Around 50 Ventintrea

Eastern Blue Hropers (Achoerodus viridis) Are Around the rocky Headlands 

Truganini - the Last Of the Tasmanian aboriginals

By the Time Triganini Was 17 She'd Been Raped (And Probably Contracted Syphullis), Her Mother Had Been Stabbed To Death, Her Uncle Had Been Shot, Her Stepmother Had Been Kidnapped By Mutinous Convicts Who Took Her To China, Her Sisters Had Been

Enslaved By Sealers, And Her Betrothed Had Been Murdered In Front Of Her. 

In Truganini's Case Each Assault Ipon Her Family Was Violent And Unprovoked. Her Mother Was Stabbed To Death. 

Tasmanian Aboriginal Women Were Much Prized By The Sealers Because They Were Highly Skilled Hunters Who Could Earn A Lot Of Money. 

The Treatment By The Sealers Was Undescribable

One Popular Torture For The Women Who Were Not Working Hard Enough Was To Tie The Women Face Down On The Ground and Put Hot Coals On Their Backs. 

In One Case Some Sealers Caught A Woman Who Had Tried To Escape, Tied Her Up, And Then Cut Flesh From Her Ears And Her Thighs And Them Forced Her To Eat It. 

 

Sir Joseph banks - Botanist

Botanist 

John Simpson - Soldier - The Man With The Donkey

The RT Hon Sir Isaac Isaacs GCB GCMG

Lieutenant General Sir John Monash GCMG KCB - Soldier, Engineer And

The Hon Sir Henry Parkes GCMG

John Pascoe Fawkner - pioneer Publisher And Member Of Parliament

Governor Darling - Colonial Governor And Vice Regal Family

Sir Douglass Mawson OBE

Sir Ian Potter - Financier And Philanthrppist

Sir Reginald Ansett KBE - Transport Pioneer

Dame Elizabeth Murdoch AC DBE - community Leader & Philanthropist

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

Aviator 

Easington Lewis - industrialist

Robert O'Hara Burke - Explorer

Explorer

Charles Sturt

Explorer 

Elizabeth MacArthur - 1767 - Fenruary 1850 - Farm Manager And First Lady

Elizabeth MacArthur Has Been

described As The Fiest Woman Of "Education and Sensitovity"

She Was Well Read, Musical, And Fully Cpnscoous Of The Novelty Of Her Surrpundings 

During Kohn Macarthur's Absenses In England - From 1801 - 1805 And Agian From 1800 - 1817..... Elizabeth NotOnly  Looked After  The Family And Home At Elizabeth Farm, Near Partamatta, But Also Managed The Camden Park Estates To The South 

Colonial William Light - 27 Apr 1786 - 6 October 1839 - Soldier And Surveyor General

Colonial William Loght Is Renowned For His Selection Of The Site For The City Of Adelaide, And It's Finely Planned Layout. 

He Was A Fine Seaman, A Machanist, Musician And Soldier. And He Was Australia's First Artist

Sir Joseph Banks 13 Feb 1743 - 19 June 1820 - Botanist & Philosopher

When In 1766 Joseph Banks Was Elected A Fellow Of The Royal Society, He Was Already A Recognised botanist. 

George III Had Only Been King

for Six Years

The Onservation In Tahiti Of The Transit Pf Venus In 1769, Sponsored By The Royal Society, Nrought Togwthrt Banks And James Cook. After Further Exploration The Endeavour Sailed Into Botany Bay In April 1770

"The Trees Overhead Anounded Bery Mich Wkth Loryquets And Coclatoos" Banks Wrote 

"Our Collection Of Plants Was Now Hrown Immensely Large And That It Is Necessary Some Wxtraordinary Care Be Taken Of Them, Lest They Should Spoil. 

Back In Wngland Banks Was The Authority On New South Wales. he Recommended That Bptany Bay Sjould Be The Site Of Britains New Penal Settlemeny 

Abel Tasman 1693-1659 - Navigator

Abel JanOon Tasman Is Commemorated In The Name Of The Island Of His Discovery Which He Called 

"Van Dieman's Land" In 1642, To Honour The Givernor General Of The Ditch Indies, Anthony Van Dieman's.

Tasman Was Born In Groningen, Holland. In 1633 Tasman Made His First Voyage To The East Indies, And In 1638 Je Took Jos Famiu To Live In Batavia Where He Was Bound To The Wast India Clmapny Fpr Ten Years