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Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: guest5 Date: January 30, 2021, 9:25 pm
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Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
[quote]Australia Day is observed on January 26 to commemorate
the arrival of the first fleet of ships from Britain in 1788.
While the day is a celebration for many, others especially
Australia's Indigenous peoples, view it as the beginning of
their dispossession and mistreatment. We look back to why the
day has always been one of the most polarizing dates on the
country’s calendar.[/quote]
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 1, 2021, 10:24 pm
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We've all heard about:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
Of course, Jews in Australia were "white", just as they were in
all Western colonies:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Australia
[quote]Eight convicts transported to Botany Bay in 1788 aboard
the First Fleet have been identified as Jewish.[6] There were
probably more, but exact numbers are not possible as the
transportation records did not indicate a convict's religion.
Over a thousand more people of Jewish descent are estimated to
have been sent to Australia as convicts during the next 60
years.[1]
...
The first move towards organisation in the community was the
formation of a Chevra Kadisha (a Jewish burial society) in
Sydney in 1817.[7] In 1820, William Cowper allotted land for the
establishment of a Jewish cemetery in the right-hand corner of
the then-Christian cemetery. The Jewish section was created to
enable the burial of one Joel Joseph. During the next ten years
there was no great increase in membership of the society, and
its services were not called for more than once a year. The
actual allocation of land for a consecrated Jewish cemetery was
not approved until 1832.[8]
The first Jewish services in the colony were conducted from 1820
in private homes by emancipist Joseph Marcus, one of the few
convicts with Jewish knowledge.[7] An account of the period is:
In 1827 and 1828 then the worldly condition of the Hebrews in
the colony improved considerably, in consequence of the great
influx of respectable merchants; and this, with other
circumstances, has raised the Hebrews in the estimation of their
fellow colonists. About this period Mr. P. J. Cohen having
offered the use of his house for the purpose, divine worship was
performed for the first time in the colony according to the
Hebrew form, and was continued regularly every Sabbath and
holiday. From some difference of opinion then existing among the
members of this faith, divine service was also performed
occasionally in a room hired by Messrs. A. Elias and James
Simmons. In this condition everything in connection with their
religion remained until the arrival of Rev. Aaron Levi, in the
year 1830. He had been a dayyan, and, duly accredited, he
succeeded in instilling into the minds of the congregation a
taste for the religion of their fathers. A Sefer Torah [scroll
of the Law] was purchased by subscription, divine service was
more regularly conducted, and from this time may be dated the
establishment of the Jewish religion in Sydney. In 1832 they
formed themselves into a proper congregation, and appointed
Joseph Barrow Montefiore as the first president.
...
By 1901 it is estimated there were over 15,000 Jews in
Australia.[1] When Australia was founded as an independent
country in 1901, some of the founders were Jewish. From the
outset, Jews were treated as equal citizens with freedom to
participate in economic and cultural life, and played an
important role in their development.
...
Throughout the 20th century, many Jews served as elected
officials. Among the positions held by a Jew were Mayor of
Melbourne, Premier of South Australia, Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and Speaker of Parliament. Many Jewish elected
officials simultaneously served as the heads of their kehillas.
...
Besides his diverse business interests in Sydney, Sir Saul
Samuel was the first Jew to become a magistrate, to sit in a
colonial Parliament and to become a minister of the Crown.[26]
In 1854 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative
Council and subsequently was an elected member of the
Legislative Assembly. He also served periods as Treasurer and
Postmaster General.[26] Vaiben Solomon was Premier of South
Australia for a week in 1899. Leo Port was Lord Mayor of Sydney
between 1975 and 1978.
In 1931, Sir Isaac Isaacs was the first Australian-born
Governor-General, and was the first Jewish vice-regal
representative in the British Empire. Sir Zelman Cowen also
served as Governor-General, between 1977 and 1982. Linda Dessau
has been Governor of Victoria since July 2015,[27] the first
woman and the first Jew to serve in the position. Sir John
Monash, a distinguished Australian Lieutenant-General during
World War I, led Australian troops both in Gallipoli and on the
Western Front. The agent-generalship of New South Wales has been
administered by two Jews: Sir Saul Samuel, one of the most
prominent and successful Jews in Australian politics, and Sir
Julian Salomons.
Several Jews have served as Chief Justices of various states.
Sir Julian Salomons was Chief Justice of New South Wales for a
fortnight in 1886; James Spigelman was the Chief Justice of NSW
from 19 May 1998 to 31 May 2011. Mahla Pearlman was Chief Judge
of the NSW Land and Environment Court from 1992 to 2003, and she
was the first woman chief judge in any (State) jurisdiction in
Australia. Jews are especially prominent in the legal
profession; for example, in Melbourne alone, the Hon. Michael
Rozenes sits as Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria,
Justice Redlich sits on the Court of Appeal, while Justices
Raymond Finkelstein, Alan Goldberg, Mark Weinberg, Ronald
Sackville and Ron Merkel have all sat in recent years on the
Federal Court of Australia. James Edelman is a justice of the
Federal Court, and is appointed to be a justice of the High
Court of Australia.
David Bennett is a Sydney barrister. He was president of the
Australian Bar Association from 1995 to 1996 and of the NSW Bar
Association from 1995 to 1997. Bennett was president of the
Association of Lawyer Arbitrators and Mediates in 1998 and
President of the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences from
1999 to 2001. He was Solicitor-General of Australia from 1998 to
2008. Bennett was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003. His wife,
Annabelle Bennett is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
...
Among the Jews who have figured as business pioneers in
Australia were Joseph Barrow Montefiore (1803–1893)[28] and his
brother Jacob Barrow Montefiore (1801–1895), one of the founders
of the colony of South Australia, as he was selected by the
British government to act on the first board of commissioners,
appointed in 1835 to conduct its affairs. Jacob's portrait hangs
in the Art Gallery of South Australia, and his memory is
perpetuated by Montefiore Hill, a vantage point which overlooks
the city of Adelaide.[29] Their nephew Jacob Levi Montefiore
(1819–1885), whose mother was a first cousin of Sir Moses
Montefiore,[30] and J. B. Montefiore[clarification needed] gave
an impetus to the progress of New South Wales. Jacob owned one
of the largest sheep-runs in the colony, and founded and for
many years acted as director of the Bank of Australasia. The
close connection of these two with the colony is further
evidenced by the township of Montefiore, New South Wales, which
stands at the junction of the Bell and Macquarie Rivers in the
Wellington valley. Joseph Montefiore was the first president of
the first Jewish congregation formed in Sydney in 1832.
V. L. Solomon of Adelaide is remembered for the useful work he
achieved in exploring the vast northern territory of his colony,
the interests of which he represented in Parliament. M. V.
Lazarus of Bendigo, known as Bendigo Lazarus, also did much to
open up new parts in the back country of Victoria. Nathaniel
Levi, for many years urged the cultivation of beetroot for the
production of sugar and spirits owed its brief existence as an
industry to Levi's own interest in raw material for his
distilling company. In his labours on behalf of this industry he
published in 1870 a work of 250 pages on the value and
adaptability of the sugar-beet. In Western Australia, the
townships of Karridale and Boyanup owe their existence to the
enterprise of M. C. Davies, a large lumber merchant.
...
Since the days of European settlement in Australia, Jews have
enjoyed formal equality before the law and have not been subject
to civil disabilities or other forms of state-sponsored
antisemitism excluding them from full participation in public
life. Jews have been active contributors in science, art, and
literature, and in the government of the colonial and
Commonwealth eras, with a number attaining prominent public
offices, including several governors-general.[/quote]
See also:
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 19, 2021, 3:47 am
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_frontier_wars
[quote]Date
1788–1934[1]
Location
Australia, including Tasmania and other surrounding islands
Result
British/Australian victory
No treaty signed
British/Australian control over Australia established,
Indigenous Australians dispossessed
Indigenous population decline due to killings, starvation,
forced migration
...
The British Government decided to establish a prison colony in
Australia in 1786.[10] Under the European legal doctrine of
terra nullius, Indigenous Australians were not recognised as
having property rights and territory could be acquired through
'original occupation' rather than conquest or consent.[7]
...
The frontier wars were particularly bloody and bitter in
Queensland, owing to its comparatively large Indigenous
population. This point is emphasised in a 2011 study by
Ørsted-Jensen, which by use of two different sources calculated
that colonial Queensland must have accounted for upwards of one
third and close to forty percent of the indigenous population of
the pre-contact Australian continent.[71]
Queensland represents the single bloodiest colonial frontier in
Australia.[72][73] Thus the records of Queensland document the
most frequent reports of shootings and massacres of indigenous
people, the three deadliest massacres on white settlers, the
most disreputable frontier police force, and the highest number
of white victims to frontier violence on record in any
Australian colony.[74] In 2009 professor Raymond Evans
calculated the indigenous fatalities caused by the Queensland
Native Police Force alone as no less than 24,000.[75] In July
2014, Evans, in cooperation with the Danish historian Robert
Ørsted-Jensen, presented the first-ever attempt to use
statistical modelling and a database covering no less than 644
collisions gathered from primary sources, and ended up with
total fatalities suffered during Queensland's frontier wars
being no less than 66,680—with Aboriginal fatalities alone
comprising no less than 65,180[76]—whereas the hitherto commonly
accepted minimum overall continental deaths had previously been
20,000.[77][78] The 66,680 covers Native Police and
settler-inflicted fatalities on Aboriginal people, but also a
calculated estimate for Aboriginal inflicted casualties on the
invading forces of whites and their associates. The continental
death toll of Europeans and associates has previously been
roughly estimated as between 2,000 and 2,500, yet there is now
evidence that Queensland alone accounted for an estimated 1,500
of these fatal frontier casualties.[3][77][78][79]
...
The largest reasonably well documented massacres in south east
Queensland were the Kilcoy and Whiteside poisonings, each of
which was said to have taken up to 70 Aboriginal lives by use of
gift of flour laced with strychnine. Central Queensland was
particularly hard hit during the 1860s and 1870s, several
contemporary settlers mention the "Skull Hole" or Mistake Creek
massacre on Bladensburg station near Winton which in 1901 was
said to have taken up to 200 Aboriginal lives.[84] In 1869 the
Port Denison Times reported that "Not long ago 120 aboriginals
disappeared on two occasions forever from the native
records".[85] Frontier violence peaked on the northern mining
frontier during the 1870s, most notably in Cook district and on
the Palmer and Hodgkinson River goldfields, with heavy loss of
Aboriginal lives and several well known massacres. Battle Camp
and Cape Bedford belong among the best known massacres of
Aboriginal people in Cook district, but they were certainly not
the only ones. The Cape Bedford massacre on 20 February 1879
alone was reported to have taken as many as 28 lives, this was
retaliation for the injuring (but not killing) of two white
"ceder-getters" from Cooktown.[86] In January 1879 Carl
Feilberg, the editor of the short lived Brisbane Daily News
(later editor-in-chief of the Brisbane Courier), conveyed a
report from a "gentleman, on whose words reliance can be placed"
that he had after just "one of these raids ... counted as many
as seventy-five natives dead or dying upon the
ground."[87][/quote]
"White" methods never change.
See also:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians
[quote]There were many massacres of Aboriginal people and Torres
Strait Islander people by settlers following the colonisation of
Australia by the British Empire, in 1788. These events were a
fundamental element of the Australian frontier wars,[1] and
frontier massacres were a significant component of Aboriginal
casualties across the continent.[2]
A project headed by historian Lyndall Ryan from the University
of Newcastle and funded by the Australian Research Council, has
been researching and mapping these massacres.[3] Significant
collaborators toward this project include Jonathan Richards from
the University of Queensland,[4][3][1] Jennifer Debenham, Chris
Owen, Robyn Smith and Bill Pascoe. Criteria such as defining a
massacre as the killing of six or more people are used and an
interactive map as an online resource is included.[5][6][2] As
of 3 January 2020, at least 311 frontier massacres over a period
of about 140 years had been documented, revealing "a
state-sanctioned and organised attempt to eradicate Aboriginal
people".[2][failed verification][/quote]
"White" objectives also never change.
One example:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gippsland_massacres
[quote]The following list of massacres was compiled by settlers
from white perpetrator sources such as letters and diaries, and
thus does not take into account Gunai Kurnai knowledge of the
history of occupation.[4]
1840 - Nuntin- unknown number murdered by Angus McMillan's men
1840 - Boney Point - "Angus McMillan and his men took a heavy
toll of Aboriginal lives"[5]
1841 - Butchers Creek - 30-35 shot by Angus McMillan's men[5]
1841 - Maffra - unknown number shot by Angus McMillan's men
1842 - Skull Creek - unknown number murdered
1842 - Bruthen Creek - "hundreds murdered"
1843 - Warrigal Creek - up to 150 people shot by Angus McMillan
and his men[6]
1844 - Maffra - unknown number murdered
1846 - South Gippsland - 14 murdered
1846 - Snowy River - 8 murdered by Captain Dana and the
Aboriginal Police
1846-47 - Central Gippsland - 50 or more shot by armed party
hunting for a white woman supposedly held by Aborigines; no such
woman was ever found.
1850 - East Gippsland - 15-20 murdered
1850 - Murrindal - 16 poisoned
1850 - Brodribb River - 15-20 murdered[/quote]
"White" narrative stereotypes never change either.....
Also:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_poisonings_of_Aboriginal_Australians
[quote]During the British colonisation of Australia, land
ownership was forcefully transferred from the various Indigenous
populations to the colonists. Several military and paramilitary
organisations such as the British Army, Native Police, Border
Police and New South Wales Mounted Police were utilised by the
British to eliminate any Aboriginal resistance to this
acquisition of land. However, it was often the responsibility of
the pioneering colonists themselves to take the initiative in
enforcing land ownership transferral. Usually this was done
violently through the use of firearms to intimidate or kill the
native people. Some colonists though, chose an alternative
approach, using poison concealed in consumables as a method of
extirpating the original custodians of the land. The tainted
consumables were either knowingly given out to groups of native
people, or purposely left in accessible places where they were
taken away and eaten collectively by the local clans. As a
result, incidents of mass deaths of Aboriginal Australians due
to these deliberate mass poisonings occurred throughout the
continent.[1][2]
The mass poisonings were generally done in a secretive manner
but there are many documented cases with some involving police
and government investigations. They appear to have begun as a
colonial method in Australia during the 1820s when toxic
substances utilised in the sheep [s]farming[/s] industry became
readily available. Chemicals such as arsenic, strychnine,
corrosive sublimate, aconitum and prussic acid were all used.
There are no cases of convictions being reported against any of
the perpetrators of these mass poisonings.
...
Some examples of mass poisonings
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
(January 2021)
1824, Bathurst - members of the Wiradjuri people poisoned with
arsenic infused damper.[1]
1827, Hunter Valley - colonists along the Hunter River poisoning
Aboriginal people with corrosive sublimate.[3]
~1833, Gangat - large number of Aboriginal people killed on the
Australian Agricultural Company's million acre land grant near
Gloucester by being given poisoned flour in up to three separate
incidents.[4][5]
1840s, Wagga Wagga - pioneer colonists to the region, William
Best and Alexander Davidson both recounted large scale
deliberate poisonings of local Wiradjuri people in the early
1840s. The poison was delivered via milk or through the
poisoning of waterholes.[6][7] Mary Gilmore, who lived near
Wagga Wagga as child, also documented several cases of mass
poisonings that occurred around the Murrumbidgee River.[8][9]
1840, Glen Innes - reports of deaths of Aboriginal people by
prussic acid poisoning investigated by government authorities
but denied by pastoralists.[10]
1841, Wannon River - at least seven Aboriginal people poisoned
to death on one of the Henty brothers' leaseholds.[11]
1842, Tarrone - at least nine Aboriginal people poisoned to
death near Port Fairy by being given poisoned flour on the
squatting run of James Kilgour.[11]
1842, Mount Kilcoy - a large number of Aboriginal people were
poisoned to death at an outpost of Evan Mackenzie's Kilcoy
property.[12][13]
1844, Ipswich - around a dozen Aborigines were poisoned at the
government-run farm known as Plough Station near Ipswich. A
convict, John Seller, offered them biscuits containing arsenic
after a dispute over him taking a female member of the clan.
Three died and Seller was charged with their murder. He avoided
conviction but as he was already a serving a sentence for a
previous crime, he was transferred south to the Cockatoo Island
prison where he was released two years later.[14]
1846, Tyntynder - between 8 and 20 Aboriginal people killed by
eating poisoned flour given to them by Scottish colonist Andrew
Beveridge near Swan Hill.[15]
1847, Whiteside - at least three Aboriginal people killed by
arsenic-laced flour being placed out for them to take. This
occurred on the Whiteside squatting run of Captain George
Griffin.[16]
1847, Kangaroo Creek - close to 30 Aboriginal people killed by
poison given to them in flour by Thomas Coutts near Grafton.
Coutts was arrested and sent to Sydney but the case was
dropped.[17]
1849, Port Lincoln - five Aboriginal people including an infant
were killed after being given flour mixed with arsenic by
hutkeeper Patrick Dwyer near Port Lincoln. Despite being
arrested with strong evidence against him, Dwyer was released
from custody by Charles Driver, the Government Resident at Port
Lincoln.[18]
1856, Hornet Bank - a number of Aboriginal people killed by
being given strychnine-laced Christmas pudding in the lead-up to
the Hornet Bank massacre.[19]
1860s, Warginburra Peninsula - Edward Hampton "Cranky" Baker
added arsenic to his food stores knowing they would be stolen by
the local Aboriginal people living on his "Peninsula"
land-holding adjoining Shoalwater Bay. The shooting and
poisoning of these people greatly diminished their number.[20]
Baker also had land near the town of Rockhampton in which
supplies of arsenic-laced flour were placed. In 1870 several
South Sea Islanders ate this flour and one died. Baker faced a
magisterial inquiry but the matter was dropped.[21][22]
1874, Bowen River Inn - five Aboriginal people were poisoned
outside the Bowen River Inn on the upper Bowen River. Two were
killed and buried in shallow graves in the riverbed while the
other three recovered.[23]
1885, Florida cattle station - a large number of Yolngu people
became ill and died after being given poisoned horse-meat on
John Arthur Macartney's newly established Florida cattle station
in north-eastern Arnhem Land.[24]
~1890, Dungog - two young Aboriginal people begging near to town
"were easily disposed of" by being given poison in their
food.[25]
1895, Fernmount - six Aboriginal people poisoned to death near
Bellingen by being given aconite to drink by John Kelly. Kelly
was suspected of manslaughter and committed for trial but was
found not guilty and discharged.[26][27]
1896, Lakeland Downs - Arsenic deliberately placed in baking
powder killed a significant number of Aboriginal people near
Lakeland as "just retribution" for the spearing of a Scottish
colonist.[28]
1908, Mt Ida - eight Aboriginal people killed by poison near
Leonora. Explorer William Carr-Boyd described those killed as
dirty, lazy, thieving "human wolves" who "got something more to
eat than they bargained for".[29]
1931 Sandover River There is also a suggestion that William
George Murray participated in another massacre or mass poisoning
of Aboriginal Australians while he was posted at Arltunga.[30]
1936, Timber Creek - five Aboriginal people killed by arsenic
being put in their food near Timber Creek.[31]
1981, Alice Springs - two Aboriginal people were killed and
fourteen others were made ill by drinking from a bottle of
sherry which had strychnine deliberately added to it. The
poisoned bottle was intentionally left by persons unknown in a
place of easy access to this group of Aboriginal people.[32]
2015, Collarenebri - three Aboriginal people, Norman Boney,
Sandra Boney and Roger Adams, were poisoned to death after
buying methanol-laced moonshine from Mary Miller in the town of
Collarenebri. Miller was not charged in relation to the deaths
and only received a $5,000 fine for selling liquor without a
licence from magistrate Clare Girotti.[33][34][/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: christianbethel Date: September 19, 2021, 12:07 pm
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Of course they haven't.
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 22, 2022, 8:03 pm
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HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-61432762
[quote]Australia election: Why is Australia's parliament so
white?
Australia is one of the most multicultural nations in the world,
but it's a different story in the country's politics, where 96%
of federal lawmakers are white.
With this year's election, political parties did have a window
to slightly improve this. But they chose not to in most cases,
critics say.
Tu Le grew up the child of Vietnamese refugees in Fowler, a
south-west Sydney electorate far from the city's beaches, and
one of the poorest urban areas in the country.
The 30-year-old works as a community lawyer for refugees and
migrants newly arrived to the area.
Last year, she was pre-selected by the Labor Party to run in the
nation's most multicultural seat. But then party bosses
side-lined her for a white woman.
It would take Kristina Kenneally four hours on public transport
- ferry, train, bus, and another bus - to get to Fowler from her
home in Sydney's Northern Beaches, where she lived on an island.
Furious locals questioned what ties she had to the area, but as
one of Labor's most prominent politicians, she was granted the
traditionally Labor-voting seat.
Ms Le only learned she'd been replaced on the night newspapers
went to print with the story.
"I was conveniently left off the invitation to the party meeting
the next day," she told the BBC.
Despite backlash - including a Facebook group where locals
campaigned to stop Ms Kenneally's appointment - Labor pushed
through the deal.
"If this scenario had played out in Britain or the United
States, it would not be acceptable," says Dr Tim Soutphomassane,
director of the Sydney Policy Lab and Australia's former Race
Discrimination Commissioner.
"But in Australia, there is a sense that you can still maintain
the status quo with very limited social and political
consequences."
[/quote]
We always said Australian Anglo bloodlines were inferior to
their UK/US counterparts.
[quote]At least one in five Australians have a non-European
background and speak a language at home other than English,
according to the last census in 2016.
Some 49% of the population was born or has a parent who was born
overseas. In the past 20 years, migrants from Australia's Asian
neighbours have eclipsed those from the UK.
But the parliament looks almost as white as it did in the days
of the "White Australia" policy - when from 1901 to the 1970s,
the nation banned non-white immigrants.
...
Two decades ago, Australia and the UK had comparably low
representation. But UK political parties - responding to
campaigns from diverse members - pledged to act on the problem.
...
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height=1011]
HTML https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1632/idt2/idt2/905779b3-c595-47a6-ba65-79f037901fa4/image/816[/img][/quote]
At least in the UK we have Operation Gaddafi running.
[quote]Labor has taken small structural steps recently - passing
commitments in a state caucus last year, and selecting two
Chinese-Australian candidates for winnable seats in Sydney.
But it was "one step forward and two steps back", says party
member and activist Osmond Chiu, when just weeks after the
backlash to Ms Le's case, Labor "parachuted in" another white
candidate to a multicultural heartland.
Andrew Charlton, a former adviser to ex-PM Kevin Rudd, lived in
a harbour mansion in Sydney's east where he ran a consultancy.
His selection scuppered the anticipated races of at least three
diverse candidates from the area which has large Indian and
Chinese diasporas.
...
The frustration on this issue has centred on Labor - because the
centre-left party calls itself the "party of multiculturalism".
But the Liberal-National government doesn't even have diversity
as a platform issue.
One of its MPs up for re-election recently appeared to confuse
her Labor rival for Tu Le, sparking accusations that she'd mixed
up the two Asian-Australian women - something she later denied.
But as one opponent said: "How is this still happening in
2022?"[/quote]
The bloodlines from the White Australia era haven't been
eliminated, so why would it not be still happening?
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 14, 2022, 9:33 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/darkness-down-under-australia-still-034829267.html
[quote]There’s a reason that so many Aboriginal people
identified with George Floyd. Australia’s First Nations
people—twelve times more likely to be incarcerated than white
Australians—continue to see themselves as victims of
state-sanctioned violence, often involving police.
Today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up 3.2
percent of Australia’s total population, yet they account for
almost 30 percent of the country’s prison population. Their
chances of dying in custody are almost six times greater than
other Australians.
...
more than 500 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the
Commission’s report was handed down.
Given the violent history of Australia’s colonization—Aboriginal
lands were taken without treaty, consent, or compensation—and
the protracted struggle for equality and justice, it’s not
surprising that First Nations people view police with deep fear
and suspicion. For more than 150 years, it was police and their
trackers (both black and white) who were responsible for many of
the massacres of Aboriginal people. It was governments and their
police who often turned a blind eye to the vigilantes who
“cleared” the country of its rightful owners. It was police who
took children from their families and facilitated their
“re-education” in state and religious institutions. And it was
police who represented the brutal imposition of whitefella law
over the laws and cultures of First Nations people. Despite
numerous investigations and inquiries over the years, no police
officer has ever been convicted for the murder of an Aboriginal
person.
In 2019, at Yuendumu, an Aboriginal community in central
Australia, Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker died after being
shot three times by Police Constable Zachary Rolfe. In a
disturbing echo of the events at Uluru in 1934, Rolfe claimed he
had acted in self-defense when Walker resisted arrest and
attacked him with a pair of scissors. In March this year, an
all-white jury found Rolfe not guilty of Walker’s murder, a
decision that sparked a wave of grief and anger at Yuendumu and
in Aboriginal communities across the country.
Local elders pleaded with police to consult them and respect
their law before entering their homes. They also asked them not
to bring their guns into the community. If racial profiling and
unnecessary deaths were to be avoided, policing, they argued,
must be carried out in collaboration with community elders and
without the need for firearms.
For many Aboriginal people at Yuendumu, the 1928 Coniston
massacre, a wave of indiscriminate killings led by Constable
George Murray (one of Bill McKinnon’s colleagues), was still in
living memory. Similar stories of profound rupture and horror
can be found throughout Australia.
In 2016, esteemed Yolngu elder and respected Indigenous leader
Galarrwuy Yunupingu recalled how his father, Mungurrawuy, was
present “when the massacres occurred in [East Arnhem Land] in
the 1920s and 1930s.” He was also “shot by a man licensed to do
so.” “These events and what lies behind them are burned into our
minds,” he explained. “They are never forgotten. Such things are
remembered. Like the scar that marked the exit of the bullet
from my father’s body.” These scars—memories of forced removal,
murder, frontier warfare, resistance, and survival—are etched
into the bloodlines of Australia’s historical imagination.
...
Like Native Americans, Indigenous Australians suffered the
dispossession of their lands. They were massacred and
“dispersed” at the barrel of a gun. They were denied the wealth
wrought from the white establishment’s appropriation of their
lands. They were long denied citizenship in their own country,
and they struggled against pernicious racial hierarchies and
oppressive legislation, adapting creatively nonetheless, and
ensuring their cultures’ survival. Although treaties allegedly
accorded Native Americans the status of nations and sovereign
governments, they were often little more than legitimizing
devices for the colonizer’s appropriation of territory, or part
of a strategy to ward off rival European powers. Indigenous
Australians, however, do not have an established history of
treaty-making to fall back on. More than 230 years after the
first wave of the British invasion began in 1788, they are still
waiting for their sovereignty as First Nations people to be
recognized.
...
Australia has struggled to dispel the myth of peaceful British
settlement—the idea that the land was simply “taken up” by
settlers without fierce resistance from First Nations people.
For many Australians, “war” is something that happened overseas.
In 2003, Prime Minister John Howard told a gathering at the
Supreme Court of Victoria that Australia had “formed a nation
without strife or warfare,” as if the frontier wars were a mere
“blemish” in an otherwise heroic narrative of widening democracy
and material prosperity.[/quote]
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/australia/
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: guest30 Date: August 14, 2022, 11:02 pm
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=448.msg15143#msg15143
date=1660530793]
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/darkness-down-under-australia-still-034829267.html
[quote]There’s a reason that so many Aboriginal people
identified with George Floyd. Australia’s First Nations
people—twelve times more likely to be incarcerated than white
Australians—continue to see themselves as victims of
state-sanctioned violence, often involving police.
Today, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up 3.2
percent of Australia’s total population, yet they account for
almost 30 percent of the country’s prison population. Their
chances of dying in custody are almost six times greater than
other Australians.
...
more than 500 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the
Commission’s report was handed down.
Given the violent history of Australia’s colonization—Aboriginal
lands were taken without treaty, consent, or compensation—and
the protracted struggle for equality and justice, it’s not
surprising that First Nations people view police with deep fear
and suspicion. For more than 150 years, it was police and their
trackers (both black and white) who were responsible for many of
the massacres of Aboriginal people. It was governments and their
police who often turned a blind eye to the vigilantes who
“cleared” the country of its rightful owners. It was police who
took children from their families and facilitated their
“re-education” in state and religious institutions. And it was
police who represented the brutal imposition of whitefella law
over the laws and cultures of First Nations people. Despite
numerous investigations and inquiries over the years, no police
officer has ever been convicted for the murder of an Aboriginal
person.
In 2019, at Yuendumu, an Aboriginal community in central
Australia, Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker died after being
shot three times by Police Constable Zachary Rolfe. In a
disturbing echo of the events at Uluru in 1934, Rolfe claimed he
had acted in self-defense when Walker resisted arrest and
attacked him with a pair of scissors. In March this year, an
all-white jury found Rolfe not guilty of Walker’s murder, a
decision that sparked a wave of grief and anger at Yuendumu and
in Aboriginal communities across the country.
Local elders pleaded with police to consult them and respect
their law before entering their homes. They also asked them not
to bring their guns into the community. If racial profiling and
unnecessary deaths were to be avoided, policing, they argued,
must be carried out in collaboration with community elders and
without the need for firearms.
For many Aboriginal people at Yuendumu, the 1928 Coniston
massacre, a wave of indiscriminate killings led by Constable
George Murray (one of Bill McKinnon’s colleagues), was still in
living memory. Similar stories of profound rupture and horror
can be found throughout Australia.
In 2016, esteemed Yolngu elder and respected Indigenous leader
Galarrwuy Yunupingu recalled how his father, Mungurrawuy, was
present “when the massacres occurred in [East Arnhem Land] in
the 1920s and 1930s.” He was also “shot by a man licensed to do
so.” “These events and what lies behind them are burned into our
minds,” he explained. “They are never forgotten. Such things are
remembered. Like the scar that marked the exit of the bullet
from my father’s body.” These scars—memories of forced removal,
murder, frontier warfare, resistance, and survival—are etched
into the bloodlines of Australia’s historical imagination.
...
Like Native Americans, Indigenous Australians suffered the
dispossession of their lands. They were massacred and
“dispersed” at the barrel of a gun. They were denied the wealth
wrought from the white establishment’s appropriation of their
lands. They were long denied citizenship in their own country,
and they struggled against pernicious racial hierarchies and
oppressive legislation, adapting creatively nonetheless, and
ensuring their cultures’ survival. Although treaties allegedly
accorded Native Americans the status of nations and sovereign
governments, they were often little more than legitimizing
devices for the colonizer’s appropriation of territory, or part
of a strategy to ward off rival European powers. Indigenous
Australians, however, do not have an established history of
treaty-making to fall back on. More than 230 years after the
first wave of the British invasion began in 1788, they are still
waiting for their sovereignty as First Nations people to be
recognized.
...
Australia has struggled to dispel the myth of peaceful British
settlement—the idea that the land was simply “taken up” by
settlers without fierce resistance from First Nations people.
For many Australians, “war” is something that happened overseas.
In 2003, Prime Minister John Howard told a gathering at the
Supreme Court of Victoria that Australia had “formed a nation
without strife or warfare,” as if the frontier wars were a mere
“blemish” in an otherwise heroic narrative of widening democracy
and material prosperity.[/quote]
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/australia/
[/quote]
Of course, importing the people with "high IQ" and able to read
many pages from a thick book not change a society into a justice
or better society. And only resulting in national-degeneration.
The "colored" refugees enter Europe only resulting economic
drop. But if the "whites" or other "colored" people who behave
like "whites" enter a homeland, it resulting gentrification,
capitalism, free-fight competition, and liberalism. But until
today the ordinary people don't want to know the consequences
from it. Ir. Sukarno, Idi Amin Dada and Hugo Chavez's expulsion
policy on "high IQ" people were correct on that time...
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 26, 2023, 7:08 pm
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Enemy article:
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2023/01/the-rise-and-decline-of-anglo-australia/
[quote]beginning in 1787, Britain shipped convicts to Australia.
The plan was also for them to be the founding population of a
British colony to counter France in the South Pacific. The first
governor, Arthur Phillip, accordingly set the pattern: Once an
exile had served his term he was to be treated as if his record
had been wiped clean.
...
convicts were chosen in part because they were healthy and would
make good settlers.[/quote]
In other words, it's OK for convicts to be "white".
In contrast:
[quote]The first rejection of non-white immigration goes back to
the 1830s. By then, landowners had large holdings and wanted
cheap labor. They petitioned to bring in Chinese coolies, but
both the colonial and British governments refused to consider
admitting people of “an inferior and servile
description.”[/quote]
Because convicts are supposedly superior (but only if they are
"white").
[quote]It was the gold rushes, starting in 1851, that brought
the first non-whites. Chinese began coming in 1854, and by 1858
there were 40,000 in the gold fields of Victoria. White miners
disliked their alien habits and complained that when Chinese
were successful they sent their earnings back to China.[/quote]
As if Britain received no revenue from Australia? Oh wait,
that's the point: earnings sent back to China reduced the
revenues gained by Britain!
[quote]Tensions peaked in 1857, when 700 white miners attacked a
camp of 2,000 Chinese. In what is known as the riot of Buckland
River, they looted the camp, burned down a temple, and killed a
handful of Chinese. Other Chinese drowned in the river trying to
escape. It took the police three days to get out to the campsite
and restore order. Thirteen white rioters were arrested, but
juries refused to convict nine of them, and the remaining four
got only nine months of prison.
In 1860, whites in the colony of New South Wales killed two more
Chinese miners, and insisted on complete exclusion. They also
set new words to the popular patriotic song, “Rule Britannia:”
Rule Britannia:
Britannia rules the waves.
No more Chinamen allowed
In New South Wales.
The colonial government found itself spending so much money
protecting Chinese miners that it finally gave in and restricted
Chinese immigration in 1861. In 1888 it passed a bill completely
excluding Chinese.
In 1901, what had been separate British colonies united to form
the Commonwealth of Australia, and its citizens wanted the
commonwealth to stay white. As the first prime minister Edmund
Barton explained, “We are guarding the last part of the world in
which the higher races can live and increase freely for the
higher civilization.” The second prime minister, Alfred Deakin,
was even more explicit: “Unity of race is absolutely essential
to the unity of Australia. It is more, actually more in the last
resort, than any other unity . . . .”
Mr. James points out that this was the overwhelming view. In its
very first year, the commonwealth passed a law to exclude all
non-whites. Britain maintained veto power over some legislation,
however, and could have overruled explicitly racial legislation.
Australia therefore adopted the method pioneered by the South
African colony of Natal and known as “the Natal formula.” This
required prospective immigrants to take a dictation test in a
European language. It could be any European language, so an
English-speaking Indian could be given a dictation test in
Italian, which he would certainly fail.
Labour was the only party that opposed this law; it insisted on
an undisguised racial ban. As was the case in the United States
at the period, spokesmen for working people were open advocates
for whites. When a commonwealth-wide Labour Party was
established in 1900, the number-two plank in its platform was
“Total exclusion of coloured and other undesirable races.” For
Australians, non-white immigration was unthinkable.
...
“Australia, the White Man’s Land,” was a piece of music
published and first performed in 1910. It included such words
as:
Sunny south of Old Britannia’s sons,
Australia the white man’s land,
defended by the white man’s guns.
God bless and help us to protect our glorious land
Australia.
HTML https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/WhiteAustralia.jpg
In 1919, Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes attended the
Paris Peace Conference. During the negotiations to draft the
covenant of the League of Nations, Japanese proposed a
declaration of racial equality. Hughes successfully led the
opposition to what he saw as an assault on the White Australian
Policy.
...
Mr. James is proud of his British heritage, just like the
Australian majority. He sees “ethnic diversification” as an open
assault not just on white Australia but British Australia.
Unlike the United States, Australia did not have to fight for
independence and for generations maintained ties to Britain that
verged on veneration. When the British general, Charles
“Chinese” Gordon was killed in Khartoum in 1885, a British
expeditionary force was formed to avenge him. No fewer than 770
volunteers sailed from Sydney to join it, and two-thirds of the
city’s population is said to have seen them off. Sixteen
thousand Australian volunteers fought for the British in the
Boer War and other wars in Southern Africa. Australian
volunteers wanted to help put down the Boxer Rebellion but
arrived too late to take part. An astonishing 60,000 men — all
volunteers — died for Britain in the First World War. Mr. James
sees these sacrifices as entirely natural for men who believed
they were fighting for their kinfolk and for the empire.
...
Mr. James looks back with nostalgia on Anglo-Australia. He notes
that until the 1970s, school children in the state of Victoria
saluted the Australian flag every day, and listened to “God Save
the Queen.” Until the 1960s, cinema played “God Save the Queen”
before the movie — and everyone rose. The queen’s portrait was
in government buildings, scouting halls, schools, and council
chambers, but these began to disappear in the 1970s.[/quote]
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: antihellenistic Date: February 1, 2023, 6:44 pm
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"Australia" were guilty to the Nusantarans for their assistance
to the Netherlands on keeping them in power to enforce their
colonialism.
[quote]The Dutch surrendered to the Japanese on 8 March 1942.
(Minute 01.34)
...
However, a number of key personnel in the Dutch East Indies
government as well as some aircraft and crew managed to escape
to Australia to establish an interim administration. (Minute
01.39)
...
The Australian government had offered to help with reorganising
and re-equipping surviving forces and gave assistance. (01.51)
...
Dutch refugees and material assets including aircraft and
merchant shipping were initially concentrated in Sydney, (Minute
02.02)
...
On 7 March 1942, just prior to the fall of Java to the Japanese,
the Lieutenant-Governor general of the Dutch East Indies Herbert
van Mook and 14 officials flew to Australia to establish an
administration to continue the struggle. (Minute 07.29)
...
The Dutch East Indies Government-in-Exile undertook important
work. It negotiated the acquisition of civil relief supplies
with the Australian Government and the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration. (Minute 07.57)
...
It sought Commonwealth permission for the basing in Australia of
a 30,000-strong liberation army being raised in the Netherlands
(Minute 08.04)[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgn43EILwZU
Never Forgive Never Forget. Retribution, not Progress
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Re: Has Australia Reconciled With Its Colonial Past?
By: colonial Date: October 14, 2023, 9:11 pm
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HTML https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20231014-australians-vote-to-reject-constitutional-voice-for-indigenous-people
It's OK for voting to be white
Australians vote to reject constitutional ‘Voice’ for Indigenous
people
[quote]
Australians have roundly rejected greater rights for Indigenous
citizens, scuppering plans to amend the country's 122-year-old
constitution after a divisive and racially-tinged referendum
campaign.
The reforms would also have created a consultative body -- a
"Voice" to Parliament -- to weigh in on laws that affect
Indigenous communities and help address profound social and
economic inequality.
Despite support from the country's centre-left government, the
"yes" campaign had trailed in opinion polls for months, and a
defeat was widely expected.
Despite pre-referendum polls pointing to a defeat, Indigenous
Australians expressed anger and anguish that the white majority
had rejected calls for a reckoning with the country's bloody
colonial past.
"This is a difficult result, this is a very hard result," said
Yes23 campaign director Dean Parkin.
"We did everything we could and we will come back from this," he
said.
More than 230 years since the first British penal ships anchored
in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese proposed the reforms
as a step towards racial reconciliation.
But instead, it has sparked a deeply rancorous and
racially-tinged debate that exposed a gulf between First Nations
people and the white majority.
Polls have consistently shown that voters -- most of whom are
white -- rank Indigenous issues far down their list of political
priorities.
[/quote]
Whites are genetically programmed to suppress and silence the
voice of non-whites
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