Bruce Pascoe on Peacock's 'Government House'

“These people thought they had created this new city in the Southern Hemisphere but there had already been a city and a civilisation there.”

A painting: two soldiers in colonial military dress sit on a rock in the foreground looking across the harbour toward Government House, the top of which appears above the trees on the far shore. Sailboats are dotted across the water.

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