Hi Joe,

I consider the Great Lie, to be the way in which Europeans have for the past 250 years, starting with Cook, revised history as far as Aboriginal people are concerned. Often creating a false narrative of events, practices, intentions etc. History should be a true account of what transpired, the whys and the wheres should be truthful. They say the victors write the history, and that is certainly true when it comes to Australia, and the European account of their encounters with the first Australians.
A part of recognition, is to relate the true history, and not some false, sanitised European account only of what took place. Simply recognising that the oral history of Aboriginal people might add to the narrative is important.

Hi Foxy,

I read the 'Conversation' article. There is no doubt James Cook was one of histories great contributors through exploration and other works he added immensely to the Europeans understanding of the world at that time. I've read several books about Cook, and he was more than a simple naval lieutenant/commander/captain, he was a very complex individual. I've stood on the beach in Hawaii where Cook was killed, and listened to an Hawaiian account of the events. For example the eating of Cook's flesh, seen through the European eyes as an act of cannibalistic barbarism, and that's how Cooks death was portrayed in European history for a couple of hundred years. The truth is somewhat more involved, the Hawaiian custom of that time, seen the eating of the remains of a great chief as a way of transferring his mana (power) to others.

Unfortunately our Libraries in Brisbane are closed due to cornavirus, hopefully will reopen soon.

Hi Paul,

The Hawaiian islanders who killed Captain Cook did
not eat him. They were not cannibals.

They believed that the power of a man was in his
bones, so they cooked part of Cook's body to enable
the bones to be more easily removed. It was the
cooking of his body which gave rise to the rumour of
cannibalism.

http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2019/02/14/how-foolish-rumour-hawaiians-ate-cook-began

This "Lie" enabled many of the quarter or less cast 'Indigenous' to heap Bull$hit after BS & extract billions of hard working taxpayer Dollars out of incompetent bureaucrats over the years.
These part-Aborigines are, going by their ancestry, also part of the 'Problem' !
I'd love to see a survey on how many of these 'Indigenous' would go back to the traditional way of existence if given a huge area of good land. I have no doubt that many of the older, real Aborigines would take up the offer but the urban feigned indignation brigade ones ? Hmmh !

I have dived on the site of the ENDEAVOUR grounding & found 3 blocks of Pig Iron ballast.
We kept them quite a few years & looked after them but I was told since the Authorities confiscated them & put them in a locker, the crumbled away to nothing !

I wish these Fifth Column, self-hating Australians would pack up and take themselves elsewhere. That's what they would do if they were sincere about their moaning and groaning about Australia's past.

Bugger off, you miserable creatures. Renounce your citizenship.

Captain Cook was cooked but not eaten whose playgrounds were where the battle of Waterloo were won.