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Sydney Harbour: a history, will be present the long sweep of the development of the waterway Sydneysiders perhaps take for granted from the formation of the harbour 10,000 years ago through the cultures of the harbour clans (the Gadigal, Gameraigal etc), to the dramatic impact of Europeans over 200 hundred years. During that time the colonists/Australians regarded the harbour as a strange place, a place of beauty, an economic resource and a home. Today Sydney Harbour derives its value from its beauty, something so clearly manifest in the construction of the Crown casino at Barangaroo.
Dr Ian Hoskins Biography
Dr Ian Hoskins has worked as an academic, public historian, writer and curator in Sydney for more than 30 years. He held teaching positions at the University of Sydney, the University of Technology and the Australian Catholic University before joining the Powerhouse Museum as a curator in 1996. He has worked as the Historian for North Sydney Council since 2003. There, Ian specialises in architectural, local and oral history.
Outside that tenure, Ian has written four books: Sydney Harbour: a history, Coast: a history of the NSW Edge, Rivers: Lifeblood of Australia, and Australia and the Pacific: a history. His histories of Sydney Harbour, the NSW coast and Australia’s relationship with the Pacific won major awards. The most recent was the 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Prize for Maritime History awarded to Australia and the Pacific.
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