Rodney Kelly will tour the United Kingdom & Europe with a special speaking tour regarding the Invasion of Australia and to seek justice for his ancestor's artefacts. Rodney has had the Aboriginal tribal oral history of Lt. Cook's first landing in Australia passed down to him through his family. It is now time to share this with the world.

 

The First Contact speaking tour will teach about how life was for Indigenous Australians for more
than 60, 000 years before Cook arrived, and how an act of violence and theft in 1770 was to become
the first of many more, from massacres and concentration camps to the loss of entire tribes ways of
life.

The Original people of Australia are the world's oldest continuous culture with customs, language
and stories passed down for more than 60,000 years. Today we are subjected to many unjust and
oppressive policies from the Australian Government including assimilation, cultural genocide,
deaths in custody and stolen children. We face discrimination on a daily basis.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS RODNEY KELLY (sixth time great-grandson of the warrior who
stood on the beach when Cook landed in Botany Bay in 1770) and ROXLEY FOLEY (son of Gary
Foley) engage in a SPECIAL UK SPEAKING TOUR this October /November.

'1770, First Contact' Speaking Tour Hosted by Rodney Kelly tells the true story of April 29 1770,
the day Lt. Cook landed in Botany Bay and everything changed in Australia forever and leads up to
the modern day predicamant of Australia's Original People as told by Roxley Foley.