Playwright Jane Harrison on Australia Day: 'This isn’t just black history people are forgetting'

Her acclaimed play Stolen voiced stories from the stolen generations. Now the Muruwari playwright has taken on the arrival of the first fleet

Seven men gather on a headland overlooking a stunning harbour for a crucial war council. The date is 26 January 1788 – and it’s a moment they’ve been anticipating for 18 years, the last time a “nowee” sailed along this coast. Then, there had been just one large wooden vessel, full of strange white-skinned aliens. But those visitors had left after a few days.

Now they’re back.

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