Dear Paul,

I'm so glad that your wife also has the shirts.
They are unique. Their quality, colours, and
artistry, are remarkable and I have received
so many comments while wearing them. "Beautiful,"
is a common word used:

http://bwtribal

Ooooops. Sorry I didn't complete the link.
Here it is again. Well worth a look:

http://bwtribal.com

SR

" there were quite formal procedures for gatherings between tribes"

Or so they say.

In fact the most formal procedures between tribes was warfare. According to calculations done by Blainey, the annual percentage of aboriginals killed in warfare was greater than the percentage killed in each year of WW1. And not just one year but every year over the millennia they occupied Australia.

When the newer arrives pushed the older ones out and finally chased them into Van Diemen's Land, I wonder if they had fo<rmal procedures for that? </sarc>

Dear mhaze,

What utter drivel. Stop reading selective quotes from the Spectator and then embellishing them even more but rather go do your own research. You might find some enlightenment there.

but rather go do your own research.
SteeleRedux,
Best to go & work in Communities where you can still gather the odd fact. Research as it is commonly seen by way of University is no longer factual. Too much self-interest has blurred perception & Library content is only released to a privileged few also with much self-interest.
The average Joe Blow off the street with an interest in history gets fobbed-off quicker than he can say 'Wha. ?"
Having people with a bias in Libraries in control of selective revealing documents is not helping future generations to pursue an interest in History !

SR wrote, rather incongruously, "Stop reading selective quotes from the Spectator "

Huh? I didn't mention the Spectator and have no idea what you're talking about. I think that makes two of us.

" but rather go do your own research. "

Oh, OK. Perhaps I might read the whole of Blainey's output on the issue - you know, in books like "The Triumph of the Nomads" and " The Story of Australia’s People". Oh, wait. That's in fact what I did - read all the material and formed an opinion. Sure beats the SR 30 second google search method.

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PS. if you did find a Spectator article on this, could you link it. I like to read everything possible on the issue - unlike some.