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Deaths in Custody Watch Group Far North Queensland

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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23.01.2022 No longer ignored by mainstream

22.01.2022 Trauma and hidden history

21.01.2022 At this very moment 54 years ago, August 23rd 1966, Vincent Lingiari and 200 men and women were walking-off Wave Hill Cattle Station. This stand against power, ...privilege and generational abuse of Aboriginal men, women and children will be remembered forever, as a moment that all Australians should reflect on, and celebrate together in unity - Ngumpin Kartiya Karru-la Jintaku-la See more

21.01.2022 Learning to live in harmony

20.01.2022 Revitalise Traditional language and loreThankyou Kerry andNorita

17.01.2022 Profiling is a definite problem with mainstream British education

16.01.2022 Reintegration priority

13.01.2022 Respect lore and Traditional protocol The Tourist Industry has neglected to learn from Traditional people . Needs reframing .

13.01.2022 The only way Give hope with attainable pathways

13.01.2022 Brisbane Musgrave Park

13.01.2022 Water air our providers

13.01.2022 Spokeswoman of DICWG FNQ The 339 Recommendations of RCIADIC have not been fulfilled Rec124 has been ignored Incident debriefing .

12.01.2022 Protesting for their black lives to matter as well as white lives

12.01.2022 Equality for all

11.01.2022 Ned Kelly outlaw became a national hero

11.01.2022 Thanks Janice Catherall for sharing this post.

10.01.2022 Before social distancing and crowd control, we had wild parties , rock n roll and sometimes things got outta control. Talk about painting the town red these g...uys take it literally, and there’s a party in EVERY tree. No one parties on this show like a litte red, lycra clad flying ted. A flash back from last year when the litte red flyingfox were in town.

09.01.2022 Traditional care of country

07.01.2022 Hidden history has a legacy

07.01.2022 Setting the example

07.01.2022 My grandfather and namesake, Walter Christopher (Chris) George Saunders was Captain Reginald Saunders’ father. Prior to enlisting in WW1, Chris worked as a gro...om in the stables around the Warrnambool district. He and many other Aboriginal people were moved around by the forcible removal policy conducted by the Aboriginal Protection Board at the time, which saw people shuffled to and fro across the state. Chris enlisted with the 10th Machine Gun Company on August 29, 1916; he later transferred to the 3rd Machine Gun Company and embarked for service aboard the 10,000 ton, HMAT A11 Ascanius on 27 May 1916, before returning to Australia in June 1919. To those who never met Chris, he is known for his image that has been captured in the exhibition, Too Dark for the Light Horse, and in a mosaic which adorns the entrance to the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. in Melbourne. To others that met him, he was known for his unassuming demeanour and generous disposition. In the winter of 1917, my great grandmother, Pop’s mother, Eliza Elizabeth Saunders, sat down at the Lake Condah Aboriginal mission station in sou’west Victoria, where she had lived since 1870, and dictated a letter. It was to Victoria’s Board for the Protection of Aborigines, which controlled every element of Aboriginal people’s lives. I draw on the writings of Tony Wright who captures the story eloquently in his article published by the Age newspaper. Sir, she began. I write to ask you to grant me the favour of continued rations as I am buying a nice new two-roomed cottage and three quarter acres of land, fenced secure with paling, new large tank and lovely stove for 50 cash. My only son and only single child has been serving his country’s good since May 1915, and I have received 1 8s weekly [from him] and have saved it for my long-looked-for wish for a home of our own if he is spared... If not, I have secured the service of a grown girl to live with me and it is having to feed a second person that I will be very grateful to you if you continue allowing me one adult ration. Taking care not to offend a bureaucracy that had caused hardship, hunger and humiliation to her and her people, Eliza added: I also wish much to thank you deeply for your great goodness to me for years. I feel a sadness leaving the station, but a woman does love her own little home She said she’d been assured the house she was to buy in the nearby township of Heywood was a bargain. "I have the money ready," she said, proud that she'd been able to save it because her soldiering son had allocated two thirds of his pay every week to her for the house they would share when, and if, he returned. The local police officer, Constable Graham of Heywood, and flint-hearted officials of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, weren’t impressed. Constable Graham reported to the board that Mrs Saunders was a cripple (she suffered rheumatoid arthritis, exacerbated by decades of freezing winters) and that he’d been, requested by her Aboriginal friends to endeavour to stop her leaving the station. The board refused to allow Mrs Saunders to leave the mission or to buy a house until her son returned from the war. Mrs Saunders’ dream of her own little home evaporated. The house was sold to another buyer. Worse, the board was indignant to learn that Mrs Saunders’ son was sending to her four shillings from his six shillings-a-day soldier’s pay. Her letter innocently informing them of her boy's generosity damned her. The board ordered the manager of the Lake Condah Mission to cease giving her rations because she was receiving military pay. Mrs Saunders, broken, dictated a new letter. I longed for a home and weeping bitterly now, she said. My son wanted it if he returned. She accused fellow Aborigines of going to the police to stop her leaving the mission because they were jealous, and suggested one of them was worried about losing the money she paid them for delivering her son’s mailed allotment to her each fortnight. My home is the only bit of brightness, she wrote. No brightness would ever come for my great grandmother Eliza Elizabeth Saunders. She died in December, 1918, a month after the end of the war. Several months later in June 1919, her son Walter Christopher (Chris) George Saunders arrived back in Australia. Like all the other Indigenous soldiers of Lake Condah, he would discover the old mission was being cut up for soldier settlers' farms - and every one of those farms would go to returned white soldiers, despite requests for land from most of the Aboriginal men. Chris Saunders married Mabel [Arden] in 1920 and had two children Reginald and Harold, and they settled at the Framlingham Aboriginal Mission near Warrnambool. Mabel died in 1924, and Chris, fearing he’d lose his boys to the welfare, took his sons to Lake Condah to be raised by his late wife's mother while he sought work in sawmills. Uncle Reg was named after his uncle and his father’s best mate, William Reginald Rawlings, also born at Framlingham, who had been awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the Western Front a month before being killed in action in 1918, aged 27. Both Reg, and younger brother Harry joined the Australian Army at the outbreak of World War II. Harry would be killed in action in New Guinea while fighting with the 2/14th Battalion. Chris Saunders went on to marry Phyllis Foster and together they had 9 children: Walter (dec), Amy (dec), Eliza (dec), George (dec), Christina, Keith, Kenneth, Theodore and Francis.

05.01.2022 It's been 5 years since Adam Goodes retired after the torrent of racist slurs thrown at him from the Australian public and media. We haven't learned. Words matt...er. It's high time for our government to take action. We need criminal prohibition of hate speech at a federal level and a Charter of Rights to protect everyone.

05.01.2022 Colonisation in Florida and Seminole Native American History

04.01.2022 Seems unjust settlement

04.01.2022 Protesters say their lives never mattered so now they want to be countered

03.01.2022 Missions in California were run by the Spanish Colonisers Quite Beautiful Now made into a hotel

03.01.2022 Wore these beads to USA Kunggandji Elder gave them for safe keeping Australian customs confiscated traditional Aborigial necklace made in FNQ . No respect .

03.01.2022 LA quiet but BLM protest continues

03.01.2022 HI EVERYONE MY BABY BROTHER DAVID DUNGAY 31st BDAY IS COMING UP ON THE 2ND OCTOBER WE ARE PLANNING A RALLY,FAMILY VIGIL AND YOUTH DAY IM TRYING TO RAISE MONEY T...O MAKE THIS HAPPEN I WILL CREATE AN EVENT FOR RALLY VERY SOON IF YOU COULD PLEASE GIVE KINDLY FOR THIS EVENT IM DOING DONATIONS VIA BANK TRANSFER AS GO FUND ME AND FACEBOOK FUNDRAISING TAKES TOO MANY FEES ACC NAME: CHRISTINE DUNGAY BSB:112879 ACC NO:478691701 PLEASE SHARE THANKS See more