Yes Foxy

Its so sad Joe's gone and can no longer enrich discussion.

We mostly agreed, but even on disagreement I respected his sincerity.

Bye Joe. Greatly missed.

Pete
http://youtu.be/PkSp8wc8lKw?t=55s

Joe will be missed by so many of us on this forum.
One of the reasons so many of us keep coming
back is because we connect with so many here and regard
them as friends.

Rest in Peace Joe. Our prayers and thoughts go out to your
children and family during this difficult time.

ttbn, your words and sentiment ring far truer and more relevant than those of seemingly more emotionally invested than they truly are, simply to appear caring to a point well beyond the realms and limitations of that expected by anyone having an "un-attached connection" to someone.
I appreciate YOUR version of respect and reverence far more than someone who overplays their hand in an attempt to be seen as a more caring person than they are, or should be, by any measure of societal expectations.

Goodbye Joe,

Thanks for all your input over the years, you leave a gap that will be hard to fill.

ALTRAV,

Different strokes for different folks I suppose. I hope Joe has gone to a better place, but he was a pain in the butt in this one.

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Dear Foxy,

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Thank you for informing us of the decease of Joe Lane, alias Loudmouth and Loudmouth 2.

Joe was an exceptional personality and a stalwart participant on OLO. He wrote in a “Quadrant Online” article in 2014 :

« My wife and I made the first Aboriginal flags, back in 1972, and more than a hundred of them up to 1981 or so and sent them all around Australia. We were ardent supporters of land rights and self-determination and used to devour any new book on the subject. Invariably these books were based on secondary and tertiary historical sources, but they fitted in with our way of thinking at the time. Later, I was to find that without attention to primary source documents, indigenous history will remain seriously defective.

« In the 1980s, I found the journals of George Taplin, the missionary who set up the Point McLeay Mission on Lake Alexandrina (where my wife was born) and managed it between 1859 and 1879. The journals were (and still are) in the State Library in Adelaide, in an old typewritten copy. At the time, I thought that some fool should type them up again. As it turned out, I was that fool. But I had discovered a goldmine of information, much of which did not conform to the dominant narrative.

« A friend gave me some old letter-books from the mission, covering up to 1900, which I carefully copied. By then I was hooked on searching out first-hand sources and went on to type up the thousand pages of the various Royal Commissions “into the Aborigines”, of 1860, 1899 and 1913–16. Many other documents have now suffered the same fate. More recently, I have been typing up the correspondence of the Protector of Aborigines in South Australia, more than 13,000 letters in, and 8500 letters out, 1840 to 1912.

« All in all, I’ve transcribed around 6000 pages of primary-source material and put it all on a website: www.firstsources.info. »

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