Captain Cook's 'blitzkrieg on Australia'

31 March 2016 - 02:16
By ©The Daily Telegraph

The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been accused of trying to rewrite colonial history after telling its students the British arrival should be referred to as an "invasion" and not a settlement. The guidelines were described by commentators as politically correct madness and a "whitewash" of history.

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