Arthur Phillip

The nearer the governor approached, the greater became the terror and agitation of the Indian.

To remove his fear, Governor Phillip threw down a dirk which he wore at his side.

The other, alarmed at the rattle of the dirk, and probably misconstruing the action, instantly fixed his lance in his throwing stick.

Such preparation is equal to what cocking a gun and directing it at its object would be with us.

So the Aussie ships, they enforced United Nations embargo and then later participated in the Gulf War.

September 7th, 1790, Governor Phillip is speared in the shoulder while speaking with a group of Indigenous Australians, but it was due to misunderstanding.

And he was speared in the shoulder by an Aboriginal bloke called Willemmering during a meeting at Manly Cove.

And Phillip

got that it was just, you know, A

bit of misunderstanding and ordered that no retaliation take place, which was, you Yeah.

He had still not been given a church.

Governor Phillip had been sympathetic, but the competing demands of building a colony from nothing left little room for church construction.

Services continued in the open air, in storehouses, in whatever spaces could be found.

Johnson made requests.

And we did, and it was great.

The tour ended at the grave of Arthur Phillip.

And, you know, I know that it's not the done thing to talk about how wonderful colonial figures were, but he was an amazing man.

He ended up the Admiral of the Blue.

Right.

Anyway, we got on really well.

And he said, so you're finishing up at Bathampton, Arthur Phillips Grave.

I said, yes.

We're told that Australia was established by the British as a penal colony, basically because Britain's prisons were overflowing and they needed to get all these convicts out to another country and they had to send them away to the other side of the world to do that.

Through your research, you're saying that's not the case no more that's not completely the case but before we get there because that's that's going to be a big point of today's discussion i want you to set the scene and set the table yeah we had captain cook come here in 1770 he discovers australia uh in in may of 1787 the first fleet set sail under Arthur Phillip, who ended up becoming the governor here.

But what was the situation in Britain politically? Also, it was a very Christian-orientated nation.

How did they view crime? How did they view punishment?

And you see where this comes out and where we start to see the consequence of this is what happened with the second and the third fleet.

Why were there so many people killed? A few people died, but there were also babies born.

They ended up with more people arriving in Sydney than left, but not the second and the third fleet, which really distressed Arthur Phillip.

And he had the ship's captains basically arrested because they'd so abused the licence they had to bring these people.

Lord Bathurst, of course, was the decision maker.

When Captain Arthur Phillip was sworn in as the first Governor of New South Wales on Proclamation Day 1788, there were a number of formalities.

One of them included proclaiming the first Charter of Justice, which outlined how the early courts would operate.

Lord Bathurst decided that those first civil courts would be abolished in 1814 with the second Charter of Justice and the creation of three new civil courts.