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The Cost Of Colonisation

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If these self-haters and cry-babies-over-colonisation were sincere, they would pack up and go back to wherever their ancestors came from, and leave the rest of us in peace.
Posted by ttbn, Saturday, 16 March 2019 8:11:06 AM
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Proved it again Indy, when it comes to nonsense you are a master.
Paul1405,
And, when it comes to being sick, hypocritical & plainly lacking integrity you hold the perpetual trophy.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 16 March 2019 8:28:37 AM
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"if you can supply the slightest bit of pre-colonial evidence to this claim"

In 1875, "just before the establishment of the earliest stations on the Finke River… the waiting warriors could be reasonably certain that all members of the Irbmangkara camp had returned. As soon as the clearing around the camp had been reached, they rushed in, like swift dingoes upon a flock of unsuspecting emus. Spears and boomerangs flew with deadly aim. Within a matter of minutes Ltjabakuka and his men were lying lifeless in their blood at their brush shelters. Then the warriors turned their murderous attention to the women and older children, and either speared or clubbed them to death. Finally, according to the grim custom of warriors and avengers, they broke the limbs of the infants, leaving them to die “natural deaths”. The final number of the dead could well have reached the high figure of from eighty to a hundred men, women, and children. Before leaving the stricken camp, the bodies of all clubbed victims were prodded with spears to make certain that there was no life left in them. For the warriors had to be sure beyond all doubt that no eyewitnesses had survived who could later on incite reprisals against them.”
It’s a long but fascinating story of murder and revenge…. http://tghstrehlow.wordpress.com/1922/10/11/wednesday-the-eleventh-day-of-october-1922/

Paleopathologist Webb’s 1995 analysis of 4500 individuals’ bones from mainland Australia covering 50,000 years. found very high rates of injuries and fractures to women’s skulls. Female head-injury frequency was about 30%, versus 12% for males. Domestic violence was the likely cause. In Adelaide female cranial trauma in skeletons was 4 times greater than for men at up to 44%. Multiple injuries were common. This level of injury and/or disparity isn’t found in other Stone Age ‘civilisations’.

First Fleeter Tench ..“They are in all respects treated with savage barbarity; condemned not only to carry the children, but all other burthens, they meet in return for submission only with blows, kicks and every other mark of brutality.”

/cont
Posted by mhaze, Saturday, 16 March 2019 8:52:35 AM
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Blue Mountain explorer… “[Aboriginal husband] took his club and struck his wife’s head such a blow that she fell to the ground unconscious. After dinner…he got infuriated and again struck his wife on the head with his club, and left her on the ground nearly dying.”

French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville remarked how often young girls are “violently dragged to isolated spots and are ravished after being subjected to a good deal of cruelty.”
Tasmanian men sold their women (possessions) to sealers for food and dogs. Many such women refused to leave when it was time to return to the tender mercies of the tribe. Arnhem women were sold to Chinese merchants as concubines who were apparently much prized in Peking.
Explorer Eyre, who was sympathetic to the natives, wrote…“Few women will be found, upon examination, to be free from frightful scars upon the head, or the marks of spear wounds about the body. I have seen a young woman, who, from the number of these marks, appeared to have been almost riddled with spear wounds."

And so on and so on. Dozens of accounts from the period. Ample archaeological evidence.
But somehow I suspect we’ll be getting obfuscation from Paul rather than the promised apology.
Posted by mhaze, Saturday, 16 March 2019 8:53:58 AM
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Dear Paul,

Here's some more "one-sided" examples:

"How ugly can we get! by Jack Waterford."
(Herald. 5.9.1977).

"If the government declared an open season on the
c**ns tomorrow, I would be first in line for my
hunter's licence." - a truckdriver in the whites-only
bar of the hotel at Wiluna, Western Australia.

"I don't care what the government does with my taxes just
as long as not one cent of it goes to the...ni**ers" -
a miner standing beside him and speaking as intensely.

Other whites around the bar gave every sign of agreement.
Aborigines as referred to in Wiluna as "c**ns,"
"ni**ers" and "mongrels"by the whites, and total hate is
the order of the day.

At the hotel, there is a much smaller bar, a considerably
more dingy one, in which Aborigines can buy beer. Not
wine and spirits, however, for these the hotel keeper
has decreed are not available for sale to blacks.

This bar closes at 7.30 each night; if blacks want to buy
beer after that they must knock on the door of the white
bar, wait outside while the barman comes outside, and
plead with him.

Fifty whites live in and around Wiluna and perhaps 250
blacks. Of the latter, about half live in a village
10 kilometres from town which was once a Seventh Day
Adventist mission.
Posted by Foxy, Saturday, 16 March 2019 9:58:53 AM
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Dear Paul,

Taken from "The changing Australians: A social
History" by Sue Fabian -

We're told under the heading of - "We know what's best
for you!"

That although it was hoped that Aborigines would fit in with
Europeans, they were regarded as inferior and their wages
were very low. Some argued that the natives were lazy
and unreliable, and so the "fixed minimum wage"for
Aborigines was only two-thirds of the wage paid to
Europeans. The family of the employed Aborigine was
supposed to work for the white boss without wages, in return
for their board.

The money paid to Aborigines was (and still is, in some areas)
paid into their bankbooks which the boss kept. If the
employee wanted to get money to spend he or she had to ask
the boss for approval. Often this meant that they never received any money of their own, only a written permission to buy those
things the boss approved.

Although there have always been individual whites who cared for the Aborigines, even amongst those with the best intentions, there
have been many sad mistakes made in the treatment of
Aborigines.

For example in the 1920s , Daisy Bates went to live with the
Aboriginal peop-le and with the love and understanding she
gave, tried to bridge the gap between blacks and whites.
But even with her good intentions, it was always a pitying
sort of approach that she offered to the "poor dying race"
of Aborigines.

Some protectors were dishonest, and it has been claimed that
they stole from the Aboriginal workers whose interests they were
supposed to protect. Some people even go so far as to claim that
in some parts of Australia, Aboriginal workers were paid not
in money but in methylated spirits, which they drank.
Posted by Foxy, Saturday, 16 March 2019 10:17:26 AM
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