The town of Bathurst, Australia’s oldest European inland settlement, stands with distinctive colonial grandeur on the rich, undulating plains that the Wiradjuri people have occupied and tended for countless millennia.
With its elaborate, proudly preserved buildings bordering expansive boulevard-style streets divided with towering ornate lamps, Bathurst is at once a manifestation of the proceeds of the 1850s gold rush and a monument to white colonial landgrab, pastoral expansion and Indigenous dispossession.
