The bicentennial year of Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, and the founding of the city of Sydney and the convict colony of New South Wales. Although Australia's history is over 40,000 years old, in 1988 the concept of terra nullius was still in vogue in Australian politics. In 1992, during an Aboriginal rights case known as Mabo, the High Court of Australia issued a judgment which was a direct overturning of terra nullius.
This commercial is what Australian politicians and media makers thought of Australia in 1988.
