Submitted by Paul Daley on
If we can spend $7m to commemorate a fictional Cook circumnavigation, Bungaree’s real one justifies a monument
Since 1996 a statue of a cat has perched on a ledge outside the Mitchell Library on Sydney’s Macquarie Street.
The cat, Trim, together with Bungaree, an Aboriginal man, sailed with navigator Matthew Flinders (whose statue stands before the cat’s outside the Mitchell) on his 1801-1803 circumnavigation of the continent he named Australia.
Related: Flawless hero or bogeyman? Captain Cook still divides along black and white lines
Related: Scott Morrison's costly James Cook project is a colonial wet dream | Jack Latimore
- Log in to post comments