The exhibition spotlights freedom fighters among Australia’s early convicts to reframe well-worn narratives around their fates as dispossessed victims. Instead, it argues their organised actions helped shape the nation’s democracy.
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William Bligh, (born September 9, 1754, probably at Plymouth, county of Devon, England died December 7, 1817, London), English navigator, explorer, and commander of the HMS Bounty at the time of the celebrated mutiny on that ship. The son of a customs officer, Bligh joined the Royal Navy in 1770. After six years as a midshipman, he was promoted to sailing master of the Resolution and served under James Cook on the great captain’s third and final voyage to the South Seas (1776–79). After returning to England, he married Elizabeth Betham, with whom he had four daughters and twin sons (the