Flinders (and his cat) get statues – so why not the Aboriginal man who sailed with them? | Paul Daley

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.

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