Discover the link between the First Fleet to Australia and the first civil lawsuit both of which changed the history of Australia. Follow the voyage of the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts including Susannah Holmes and Henry Kable. Explore their history and how these two convicts laid a charge in the colony’s first civil proceedings and how this impacted Australian history.

DELIVERY MODE

• Face-to-Face

COURSE OUTLINE

• The ships and the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia
• The penal history of Susannah Holmes and Henry Kable
• How Susannah Holmes and Henry Kable filed the first civil lawsuit in Australian history and learn its outcome

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Know how the First Fleet was influential in bringing people to Australia who impacted Australia’s history
2. Understand how this first civil lawsuit changed the history of Australia