Eliza Batman, the Irish convict reinvented as ‘Melbourne’s founding mother’, was both colonised and coloniser on two violent frontiers

Penelope  Edmonds; Michelle Berry

Eliza Batman, the Irish convict reinvented as ‘Melbourne’s founding mother’, was both colonised and coloniser on two violent frontiers

Penelope Edmonds
, Michelle Berry

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

On June 8 1835, 188 years ago today, pastoralist John Batman crossed the Bass Strait and arrived on the shores of Naarm (now Melbourne city), on Kulin lands. His Irish-born convict wife, Eliza Batman, and their seven daughters arrived at Port Phillip the following year.

Original language	English
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publisher	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 8 Jun 2023

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Melbourne
Frontier Wars
Tasmanian history

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