A lecture by Professor Peggy Brock (Emeritus Professor, Edith Cowan University) | Thursday 6 May | 6PM
Captain James Cook was one of several European navigators in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who sailed to the shores of Australia on voyages of exploration. Despite landing on the continent over 160 years after the first Dutch sighting of our coastline, Cook, as the first British arrival, is the one who has been mythologised"… ".''