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Matthew Crocker, Graduate Researcher Teaching Fellow, Deakin University

Before the budget: how Governor Phillip managed without cash in the colony

The First Fleet entering Port Jackson by E. Le Bihan State Library of New South Wales

On January 18 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip and the ships of the First Fleet landed on the shores of New South Wales.

They brought a supply of food, agricultural tools and livestock. Everything the British government thought they’d need to establish a colony on the other side of the world.

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