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24.01.2022 Good! Next our turn..? :)
21.01.2022 "Europeans arrived as alienated people". You'll want to turn the sound up to hear Jack Thompson explain why he thinks European Australians need to own up to the...ir thorny history and get over their sense of denial and embarrassment, in order to connect to land and embrace their own heritage. Full interview on Awaken, tonight 9pm. See more
18.01.2022 Yesterday Australian media made a tribute to remember those lost on Ash Wednesday bush fires 60 years ago, yet Aboriginal Peoples lives that have been lost at M...aralinga 60 years ago are forgotten and dismissed like many attrocities in Australia's short colonial invasion. It has been 60 years since thousands were killed and thousands more displaced due to British nuclear bombs that were dropped on Aboriginal Peoples homes and homelands at Maralinga, South Australia. Some old people are still alive today who were lucky enough to escape the bombs, have given many accounts to what they have witnessed. Some gave testimony that they witnessed bodies being dragged in on wheelbarrows and dumped in mass graves by white people as part of the clean up operation. Children's bodies were grinded up and analysed in laboratories to see how much strontium 90 had condensed in their bones. The Australian Government was accountable for the clean up operation as part of their signed agreement with the British. "While Australia was preparing to sign the Maralinga agreement, the supply minister, Howard Beale, wrote in a top-secret 1954 cabinet document: 'Although [the] UK had intimated that she was prepared to meet the full costs, Australia proposed that the principles of apportioning the expenses of the trial should be agreed whereby the cost of Australian personnel engaged on the preparation of the site, and of materials and equipment which could be recovered after the tests, should fall to Australia’s account.'" http://theconversation.com/sixty-years-on-the-maralinga-bom Still to this day the desert still has bodies riddled throughout that were unable to be rescued and/or even have a proper burial. More bodies were found only just recently and taken without permission by an anthropologist to Adelaide and again analysed by a coroner. Irrespective of the human toll White People capitalised off the mass murder and made a profit from tourism at the very sites where thousands lost their lives. The blood stains of genocide still remain on Australian soil Inflicted by the British and Australian Government as a joint partnership.
17.01.2022 Frontier Wars Story Camp is on again at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy 19 - 25 April. https://www.facebook.com/events/212104749530134/ Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu, story telling at Sacred Fire Thursday 19 and Friday 20. Come for a session. Come for a day. Come camp and share campfire yarning
17.01.2022 Anzac coming up ? Did you know Australia would not have a Anzac day if they didn't have a Invasion dayAnzac coming up ? Did you know Australia would not have a Anzac day if they didn't have a Invasion day
16.01.2022 Come to the next Frontier Wars Camp. https://www.facebook.com/events/1278318945595099/
16.01.2022 This not defence. Real defence would be directed to averting climate disaster.
16.01.2022 In how many wars is the Australian Defence Force engaged? Since the Australian Special Air Service Regiment has something like 600 personnel deployed on active... service in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, that's at least three wars. But the command of the SASR is interoperably integrated into US Special Operation Command. Which means they can be anywhere SOF wants them. Which means a possible 134 different wars in service of the US Empire.
12.01.2022 Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park, with extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands, and ab...undant wildlife. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than most people have ever realized. For more than a decade, he has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and this book reveals how. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires Australians now experience. With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, this book rewrites the history of the continent, with huge implications for today. https://www.kobo.com//en/ebook/the-biggest-estate-on-earth
07.01.2022 In 1816 under the command of various military leaders three detachments were dispatched by Governor Macquarie to `inflict terrible and exemplary punishments` on... the Aborigines of the Appin area. Early in the morning of 17 April 1816 the military’s leader for the Appin area Captain Wallis and a number of his men came across a Dharawal men’s camp. They slaughtered the men who were mostly elders, cut off their heads and took them back to Sydney. While Captain Wallis returned to Sydney the remaining men hunted down the local Aboriginal clan (Dharawal people). They found the camp where the women and children were staying. They shot and trampled them under their horses and drove them over the cliffs at Broughton Pass.
06.01.2022 THE MASSACRES OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AUSTRALIA MUST CONFRONT "The truth of Australia’s history has long been hiding in plain sight (...) But calls are growing fo...r a national truth-telling process. Such wishes are expressed in the Uluru statement from the heart. Reconciliation Australia’s 2019 barometer of attitudes to Indigenous peoples found that 80% of people consider truth telling important. Almost 70% of Australians accept that Aboriginal people were subject to mass killings, incarceration and forced removal from land, and their movement was restricted (...) Starting in 1794, mass killings were first carried out by British soldiers, then by police and settlers often acting together and later by native police, working under the command of white officers, in militia-style forces supported by colonial governments. These tactics were employed, without formal repercussions, as late as 1926. Using data from the colonial massacre map at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for 21st Century Humanities, and adopting its stringent research methods, Guardian Australia has surveyed the rest of the country. We found that: Government forces were actively engaged in frontier massacres until at least the late 1920s. These attacks became more lethal for Aboriginal people over time, not less. The average number of deaths of Aboriginal people in each conflict increased, but from the early 1900s casualties among the settlers ended entirely with the exception of one death in 1928. The most common motive for a massacre was reprisal for the killing of settler civilians but at least 51 massacres were in reprisal for the killing or theft of livestock or property. Of the attacks on the map, only once were colonial perpetrators found guilty and punished in the aftermath of the Myall Creek killings in 1838. In NSW and Tasmania between 1794 and 1833, most of the 56 recorded attacks were carried out on foot by detachments of soldiers from British regiments, and an average of 15 people were killed in each one. The weapon most often used was the Brown Bess musket, which was issued to British forces in the Napoleonic wars. In NSW and Victoria between 1834 and 1859, horses and carbine rifles were used in at least 116 frontier massacres of Aboriginal people in mostly daytime attacks, with an average of 27 people killed in each attack. From the late 1840s, massacres were carried out as daylight attacks by native police, sometimes in joint operations with settlers. They most often used double-barrelled shotguns, rifles and carbines. Preliminary data from Queensland shows that between 1859 and 1915 an average of 34 people were killed in each attack. There are at least nine known cases of deliberate poisoning of flour given to Aboriginal people. There were also efforts to cover up the atrocities. (...) Research and verification of the evidence takes time and care. It involves locating primary sources such as letters, journals, newspaper articles, books, photographs and oral histories (...) Learning about this history will come as a shock to some. But Australians trying to move past blame or guilt are coming forward now in greater numbers, and their voices are only growing louder..." Source [https://bit.ly/2NHBt0Z] #AboriginalPeoples #IndigenousPeoples #FrontierWars #Uluru #MassKillings #AboriginalPeoplesMassacre #LandGrab #SurvivalDay #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #AboriginalLand #ChangeTheNation #STOPColonialism #Australia #IndigenousRights #AboriginalRights #InvasionDay #AbolishAustraliaDay #ChangeTheDate #January26 #WeStillWontCelebrate #Sovereignty #HumanRights
05.01.2022 Healing Unity Peace 26/1/17
05.01.2022 Here is a new thread in the recognition of Frontier Wars in the Australian creation narrative. So much of the capital for the Australian colonial pastoral industry and its bankers came from the $16 billion (in today's dollars) compensation payout to British slave owners in the Caribbean by British tax payers. https://www.theguardian.com//colonial-australias-foundatio
05.01.2022 Assimilating Days
03.01.2022 Over recent years, Members of the Australian Government have waged war on the Black History of Australia. Politicians have claimed stories of massacres were jus...t myths. Chris Owen's latest book (Every Mothers Son Is Guilty) exposes some of the colonisers worst crimes that are far from fabrication: http://bit.ly/2jDlB0P A recurring feature of Kimberley Aboriginal oral history are accounts that detail the practice of colonists killing and burning Aboriginal people (including women and children) by piling the bodies up (after, it appears, the condemned had gathered the wood for the fire) and incinerating them with kerosene. These large scale killings were known as punitive expeditions. Stories such as this are typical. Frank Budbaria at Turkey Creek ‘They used to do em down here, they shot big mob just down the bottom camp here (Turkey Creek) that side of the flat rock there. Just past the bottom camp, they shot big mob there. Burn em up on the flat rock on top.’ Biddy Malingal on massacres at Lightman Creek, Violet Valley and Panton River: ‘They kartiya [white people] went back and shot all the babies, kids and teenage girls and all the old ladies, their mothers and grandmothers, and all the old men. They had all climbed up trees, poor things. They shot them like birds and they fell down like birds. Finished. They got all the wood, and piled it up. They pulled all the people and put them on top of the wood, put kerosene on it and lit the fire.’ (p.466.) These oral history accounts are often challenged by some who claim they are ‘fabrications’ or ‘myths’ and are offensive to white Australians as their ancestors would never do such a thing. There is however a considerable body of evidence from police themselves that this occurred. In December 1897 PC Ritchie received information from an Aboriginal prisoner who showed him the sites on McPhee’s Creek where four pastoralists shot three women and one man and burnt their bodies. ‘The camp was quite visible’, Ritchie wrote. ‘Saw the place where the bodies were burnt. Saw one skull and lower jaw in the sand and ashes also some smaller bones much burnt.’ Despite the evidence of murder no prosecution was even attempted. (p.395) These killings went well into the 20th century. Burning Aboriginal bodies to hide evidence appeared to escalate in the 1900s as more public attention was given to the Kimberley. In late October 1901 PC James Campbell Thomson from Argyle police camp investigated allegations of the murder of two Aboriginal men on Texas Downs Station and the burning of their bodies. In the course of his investigations he visited the site where the bodies were burnt and found the remains of both visible. He gathered five independent Aboriginal witnesses who could corroborate the fact that Texas Downs stockman Thomas McLaughlin shot and killed two Aboriginal men and burnt their bodies at a spot 48 kilometres east of Turkey Creek telegraph station. East Kimberley colonists rallied behind McLaughlin and collected 300 enabling him to escape to South Australia; as a consequence charges were never brought against him. Aboriginal witness statement - Merriemerrie 1905 Roth Royal Commission 14 Year old Aboriginal prisoner Boodungarry (serving two years in gaol for cattle killing) said: ‘I had been working for a white man but left and went to the bush. PC Wilson asked if I killed cattle. I said ‘no’. Wilson and Inglis then talked together and they said they would shoot me. PC Inglis put a cartridge in his rifle, pointed it at me, and said he would burn me at a rock. It frightened me, and then I said I did kill a bullock.’ (p.409) 1915 Mistake Creek Massacre. Constable John Franklin Flinders reported that Mick Rhatigan and his two native workers, Nipper and Wyne, ‘shot and burned five or six Aborigines’. The ‘charred remains’ of two bodies were found at Mistake Creek and the bodies of five others were found some distance away. (p.438) 1916 Mowla Bluff massacre. Nyikina Elder John Watson said, was a punitive expedition by police and other colonists that took place after a station manager was assaulted by some Mangala people over a small dispute. Instead of just arresting those involved the punitive expedition wreaked havoc on men, women and children from the Nyikina Mangala people. They were rounded up, ordered to collect firewood, and then shot and their remains burnt. Watson says he was told that three or four hundred were killed and only three escaped. (p.439) 1924 Bedford Downs massacre. Kija Elder Dottie Watby describes how, in response to the killing of a valuable bullock, Kija and Worla people were forced to cut wood. They were then given damper (bread) that was poisoned. After they were poisoned (as Dottie stated, they ‘drop down’) managers and stockmen from adjacent stations started shooting everyone. She remembered that they: ‘Killem all dem blackfellas, family for us mob.’ Then: Right, dem bin gettem dat wagon, gettam dat donkey and pullem la fire. They loadem in big pile like dat and chuckem allawood, chuckem, chuckem, chuckem, kerosene, chuckem kerosene, Dey bin light dat fire terrible. (p,441) The most notorious case is the 1927 Forrest River Massacres 13 men including two police officers (all armed with 500 rounds of ammunition) went on a punitive expedition over six weeks the resulting publicity generated a royal commission. G.T. Wood, ‘Royal Commission of Inquiry into Alleged Killing and Burning of Bodies of Aborigines in East Kimberley and into Police Methods when Effecting Arrests.’ In the Royal Commission Inspector Douglas gave evidence that ‘sixteen natives were burned in three lots: one, six and nine’. Commissioner Wood reduced this figure and found that eleven people had been murdered and their remains burnt. Wood noted that the ‘conspiracy of silence’ around the massacre was so extensive it was almost impossible to get evidence. PCs Regan and St Jack were the only members of the expedition charged with murder, though with the absence of eyewitness testimony, a magistrate found the evidence insufficient to go to trial and the police were reinstated. (p.443)
