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Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Address: 76 Fegen Drive, Moorooka 4105 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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10.01.2022 The Forgotten History of Brisbane In the 1880s a book was published on the history of Queensland and its capital Brisbane. I have forgotten the names of the book and its author (it was unread in the library of a friend who showed it to me). What sticks in my mind is the story of Thomas Pamphlett who "discovered" the mouth of what was named Brisbane River, the main river that flows into Moreton Bay. Pamphlett was a convict who had been released and was sailing with three compa...nions in search of timber (they called many Australian species 'Cedar" at the time). Pamphlett and his mates left New South Wales with an intent to sail to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) to collect a shipment of wood but were blown to the north in a storm and were shipwrecked in Moreton Bay. Pamplett and his companions were looked after by the local Aboriginal people until they were "rescued" by a search party from New South Wales. By then they had learned from the Aboriginal people where the river entered the bay. This allowed navigation up the river to the site that was chosen by Brisbane as an ideal spot to send recalcitrant prisoners from the NSW prison colony of which he was the governor. He visited the site personally and said that the prisoners should be shifted from Redcliffe on the coast to the bend of the river where they would be surrounded by forest inhabited by what they called "wild blacks". In this book they described "wild" and "tame" blacks. The wild blacks were hunted and poisoned all over Australia, including in Queensland, though this book does not mention the massacres and mass-murder. It does say some things about the Aboriginal people of Meanjin and Yuggerapura that few people know. One is that they lived in settled communities with two-story wooden houses. The book pointed out that these houses were very different to the "rude gunyahs" of the Central Australian Tribes. It also provides an account of Pamphlett that provides more detail than Wikipedia does. Pamphlett reported to a judge in NSW when he was debriefed after his "rescue" that when he first came ashore he found a path leading to a hut outside which a man was standing with a child. According to Pamphlett the man snatched his child into his arms and asked in perfect English "What do you want? Do you want to kill me?" This report was put down to the trauma of the shipwreck and Pamphlett was disbelieved, however he may have been telling the truth. Pamphlett was shipwrecked in 1923, while Captain Cook sailed to the east coast of Australia more than 50 years earlier, in 1770. The Aboriginal people may well have known English and the murderous nature of the colonists.

01.01.2022 The slide in the background is is Media Media Center and unrelated to the monologue about Sri Lankan and Australian history. Dr Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam returns to it at the end and discusses the Moorooka Fete celebrating 90 years of the Moorooka State School. The SD Card ran out of memory so the monologue ends abruptlly...