Bungaree, the first Australian: history revisited in Aboriginal art today

The man who witnessed the First Fleet sailing through Sydney harbour in 1788 has inspired 16 contemporary Indigenous artists to re-interpret his responseBungaree: the First Australian is a new exhibition pondering an eccentric and compelling figure in Australian history. Bungaree was an Aboriginal man, a contemporary of Bennelong and Pemulwuy, living in the Sydney basin at the time that the First Fleet sailed through the heads at Sydney harbour in 1788.He was also an eyewitness to what followed.