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25.01.2022 #NoTreesNoTreaty #ProtectTheSacred #ProtectorsNotProtestors

20.01.2022 Right here in Australia on the Dampier Peninsula over 1,000,000 #Burrup rockart pieces made over a 15,000 year period ( from c 25,000 to c. 40,000 years ago) sp...read over an archipalego and under the sea, document the longest continuous history of any one people in any place on earth. If you are amazed to know that this site doesn’t even have a heritage protection order, then you would be horrified that successive state and federal governments have allowed the petrochemicals industry to destroy over 20% of it. Check out our old Stand Up for the Burrup page for more info. #art #burrup

19.01.2022 ‘Archaeologists say they have found ancient banana farms once managed by Australia's Indigenous peoples.’

18.01.2022 'Cook explicitly states he personally fired the first three shots, the second of these struck the Aboriginal warrior,' FitzSimons said. 'Only after this second shot are spears thrown and Cook states he fired once more. So yes, Cook fired first and drew first blood at the first contact in New South Wales.'

18.01.2022 Slavery in 1949. Today our Prime Minister Scott Morrison stated ‘Australia when it was founded as a settlement, as New South Wales, was on the basis that there ...be no slavery.’ Let us leave aside ‘blackbirding’ - the code name for slavery of Aboriginal people (and Kanakas or South Sea Islanders) in the Queensland sugar fields in the 1860s that lasted for decades. There's quite a lot written about it (in books) and it brings up hundreds of entries in a two second Google search. See Raymond Evans work for a start. And let us leave aside in the North West/Kimberley districts of Western Australia through 1870-1900 Aboriginal people were blackbirded: kidnapped and neck chained and brought to the coast forced on boats and exploited diving for Pearl shell. This was well documented by government officials and concerned locals described it as slavery. They would be starved, bashed and often murdered for not collecting enough pearl shell. (See my post 19 Oct 2018 link below.) Then here the pastoral station manager of the Pilbara located Corunna Downs. 'Mr Bligh' openly admitted exploiting Aboriginal labour was slavery. He stated though it was 'a mild form of slavery, and declared that pastoralists could not carry on [make money/profit] without this slave labor.' And the neck chains were 'only light ones.' Aboriginal people built the WA pastoral industry with their free slaved labour. And what year was this? November 1949. Neck chains were used until 1958. Stan Middleton was the Western Australian Commissioner of Native Affairs. See https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=291859218086417&id=153928098546197 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspap/article/209392024/22669189

17.01.2022 ‘It is time to call our cities by their true names. They are beautiful, they are cultural and they are grounded in strong mother tongue and spirit. You lose all of this when you attempt to overwrite this with a generic name taken from largely the United Kingdom.’ Let the take back begin!... #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA #NOconsent #Lifestylechoice

12.01.2022 ‘Some trees have been spared and some haven't at the contested site of a highway expansion. So who decides what happens to sacred Indigenous spaces? And what is a "directions" tree?’

12.01.2022 Our past history informs our present and future, what are your thoughts on Reconciliation and Treaty?

11.01.2022 ‘The name Invasion Day does not just reflect an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective. It also reflects the meaning of invasion within a European system of law international law as it operated in the 18th and 19th centuries.’ #TruthTelling #Treaty #WeAlwaysRemember

11.01.2022 Meriki Onus: I’m really saddened to see the directions tree chopped down. I feel like Victoria are dancing on our graves with doughnuts and whisky. https://www.theguardian.com//the-destruction-of-a-sacred-t

08.01.2022 "And these people, going through hell, managed to impose themselves on a society that did not respect them."

06.01.2022 This week, newly appointed Greens senator Lidia Thorpe entered the chamber with one fist raised. In her other hand, she carried a large message stick with 441 c...arefully painted marks. The lines represented each of the First Nations people who have died under police supervision since the 1991 Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody. This continues a powerful pre-Invasion tradition, when message sticks were sent between distant communities to maintain diplomatic relations. credit: AAP/Lukas Coch Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3lvaINk

04.01.2022 ‘His visit was barely documented or recorded but for those who met the boxer during his trip to Fitzroy the memories endure.’

03.01.2022 In 1966, 200 Gurindji stockmen and house servants walked off Wave Hill station in protest against poor treatment of Aboriginal Australians. The Gurindji walk-off contributed to the growing pressure on governments to address the question of land rights. #NRW2020 | #WalkingTogether2020

01.01.2022 ‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators’ #BlackLivesMatter #DeathsInCustody #Justice

01.01.2022 ‘The people have never seen a horse but after they have sated the thirst of the stumbling explorers they turn to the strange beasts and reach out the coolamons so their fellow living creatures may drink. Sturt comments on this courageous and generous act. The explorers, with their teeth loose and gums inflamed from scurvy, are invited to dine on roast duck and cakes baked from the grains the Aborigines have been harvesting. In the desert! Then they are offered their choice of three new houses in the village. Houses, crops, agriculture,baking?’ #TruthTelling #Treaty #AboriginalLandRights