Category Archives: Australia Colonial history

A useful distinction between ‘pre-colonial foragers’ and ‘contemporary Aboriginal Australians’ – they are not the same

From Quillette:

Australia is one of the only places where humans maintained a hunter-gatherer lifestyle into the modern era. This makes it an invaluable window into humanity’s deep past—a window that is closing, writes Mungo Manic. This video explores the complexities surrounding the identity and history of Aboriginal Australians, particularly focusing on the distinction between contemporary Aboriginal Australians and the pre-colonial foragers. It delves into the impact of colonization on these communities, the ambiguity of Aboriginal identity, and the challenges faced in preserving the archaeological and cultural heritage of Australia’s forager past.

The voyage of the First Fleet

JONATHAN KING, a descendant of Philip Gidley King, the third governor of the Australian Colony (1800-1806), opened the introduction to his book, The First Fleet: The Convict Voyage that Founded Australia 1787-1788, with this claim:

“The founding of the Australian nation by the First Fleet is one of the greatest stories of mankind. Thirteen hundred and fifty people, crammed into eleven tiny ships, sailed halfway around the world to transplant European civilization, and on a voyage that took eight months and one week … It was an epic achievement of navigation, use of the wind, ocean currents, and organisation—yet it is a story little known within, or outside, Australia.”

‘No sober judgment of the facts could be at odds with this assessment. Some have compared the First Fleet voyage with the feat of landing a man on the moon. Despite the magnitude of the achievement, most Australians would have no idea that “the journals and diaries of at least eleven scribes have survived from the First Fleet along with reports and logbooks of others.” Those journals included that of author King’s ancestor Second Lieutenant Philip Gidley King RN on the fleet’s flagship HMS Sirius. [The Sirius was 27 metres long and 10 metres wide.] Australians of all ancestries have at their disposal firsthand reports of that incredible sea voyage that, against the odds, with never a navigational falter, led eleven ships into Botany Bay between the 18 and 20 January 1788, after 15,000 miles and 252 days.’

These were the opening paragraphs of chapter 13 of my book PRISON HULK TO REDEMPTION

So astounding was the scientific and technological achievement of the First Fleet that sailed through uncharted waters below the 44th parallel that it is difficult to think the analogy with the moon landing is overstated.

Sussan Ley, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, went a trifle further and compared the First Fleet voyage with an expedition to settle Mars. It was a golden chance for the Labor Party to show their ignorance and political dilettantism.

Labor minister Katy Gallagher, Labor’s minister for man-hatred, reacted in character. She ‘labelled Sussan Ley’s comparison of the arrival of the First Fleet to Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission to reach Mars as “nuts”.’ We can’t expect anything better from useless Gallagher whose mind cannot cope with the intellectual content of a simple analogy and must at once go to mockery. Gallagher should be a target of the Liberal Party’s at the coming federal election. As a man, you would have to have a death wish to vote for her.

Prime Minister Albanese was milder in his reaction. He claimed, ‘it was a very strange analogy to draw, pointing out that Australia was populated when Captain Arthur Phillip landed, while Mars … is devoid of life.’

The question of population does not alter the analogy. The analogy is about the astounding achievement of the First Fleet. A later reported remark from the PM was something to the effect that the comparison was hurtful. Poor Anthony, that’s another case of the PM giving into his emotions. Whether the analogy is hurtful or not does not affect the analogy which is about scientific, technological, and navigational achievement.

As for population, estimates of the native population range from 300,000 to 800,000 on that vast mass of land that came to be known as Australia. Apart from that sparse population of primitive natives who spent their time in murderous conflicts over territory, there was nothing there, just land waiting for its riches to be won by a competent civilization of people.

I made a video of the First Fleet’s voyage.

Part 2 two of the presentation is about the settlement:

White Aboriginals on the cusp of successful coup

Nothing demonstrates how degraded and corrupted Australian government has become more than the so-called Treaty negotiations between white Aboriginal coup leaders and the traitorous Marxist Andrews/Allan government.

The origin of this cancerous problem is the NATIVE TITLES ACT 1993 passed by the perfidious Keating Labor government. The cumulating coup by white Aboriginals, at the centre of which are and always have been unrelenting Marxists, can only be stopped by repealing this destructive treacherous act.

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Permanent Indigenous voice on the table as Victoria treaty negotiations ramp up

Story by Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent, The Guardian, 14 Jan 2025

First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria co-chairs Ngarra Murray (right) and Rueben Berg. A permanent Indigenous voice to parliament would deliver ‘practical solutions for Aboriginal communities across the state’, Berg says. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP© Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

A permanent Indigenous voice to parliament is being considered as part of treaty negotiations between the Victorian government and the state’s First Peoples’ Assembly.

On Monday, the two groups issued a joint statement outlining the topics to be discussed as part of negotiations that began in late November, which includes the “creation of an ongoing First Peoples’ representative body”.

The possibility of “evolving” the First Peoples’ Assembly into such a body will be discussed. Further, “the role of a representative body in decision-making relating to Victorian government programs and services for First Peoples” and the “interaction between a representative body and the Victorian parliament and government” will also be negotiated.

Although the statement does not refer to such a body as a voice to parliament, the government has previously referred to the work of the First Peoples’ Assembly as being part of the “voice” aspect of the Uluru statement of the heart.

The assembly was established in 2018 to represent traditional owners of country and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Victoria “on the journey to treaty”.Expand article logo

Read the rest here . . .

Matthews Flinders – Australian hero reburied

It is more than ironic that Australia’s so-called multicultural (government-funded) television channel did a report on the reburial of Matthew Flinders, the English explorer who gave the new nation, Australia, its name. There was no Australia before the settlers from the British Isles founded our nation in January 1788.

It’s ironic because SBS is anti-white central in the Australian media and the mouthpiece for the mostly mixed-race people who have reinvented themselves as Aboriginal and are successfully pursuing their separatist agenda.

The search for my ancestors

It is now almost eighteen months since my son, Roger, and I completed our trip up through northwestern New South Wales to find where our colonial Wilson and Jones Ancestors lived and worked. James Joseph Wilson arrived in Sydney in 1827 and Michael Jones in 1829. Both were convicts. Their free settler wives, Jane and Elizabeth Harris, came from a small village in Wiltshire.

It was the trip of a lifetime, a trip that I’m probably too old to do again.

Of course, we were a couple of rank amateurs as far as making videos went. And viewing the results no television station will be running after us. However, despite our amateur efforts we are more than happy with the results. We achieved what we set out to do. We set out to trace our family history, not only for ourselves, but for Australians with similar family background.

The experiences of our family and like-families were, and are, an important part of Australia’s history. Indeed, they were the starting point of the Australian nation. Without them, there would be no Australian nation. It’s a part of Australia’s history that an elite class is now desperate to erase.

I hope the six episodes of our discoveries will spur other Australians to go and find themselves and Australia in a similar expedition. You won’t regret it.

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They have turned against us

Caving into the violence of the far-left ‘Aboriginal’ activists

Far-left ‘Aboriginal’ activists have continued their program of intimidation and demoralization – classic Marxist praxis. They went on a raid to destroy monuments to Australia’s colonial period which was a preface to the nation as we know it.

The statue of Captain Cook at St Kilda, the monument in Fitzroy Gardens, and the statue of Queen Victoria near the CBD were victims of the raid.

The media, including the ABC in the report below, are calling it the work of ‘vandals’ when they know very well who the perpetrators are. Indeed, a question remains how much collusion there is between the Marxists, the media (especially the ABC), and local councils who the Marxists have hijacked.

The activist thugs left various messages behind their work of intimidation: ‘Cook the colony’, ‘shame’, ‘the colony will fall’. Those messages are a continuing declaration of war against the Australian nation.

Do you think Australia’s authorities will carry the war up to those traitors and subversives? Not on your life. Some are too gutless to act; others support the treachery and subversion. They support what amounts to a political, land and cultural coup.

Far-left Jacinta Allan, Daniel-Andrews-clone and premier of Australia’s first genuine Marxist government, declared the statue of Captain Cook would be restored when the news first broke. Now, she says she is leaving it to the councils. We know what the relevant councils will do, don’t we?

It has been reported that a ‘Yarra city council officer has recommended the memorial be permanently removed due to the serious, irreparable damage and because it has “little or no significance” to the park.’ Exactly. This is the way the war will continue.

Is there nobody to defend the Australian people?

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Captain Cook monument toppled in Edinburgh Gardens in Melbourne’s north, days after vandalism spree

ABC Sun 28 Jan 2024

A stone monument toppled over with the words "cook the colony" graffitied on the stone in red paint
The toppled Captain Cook plaque was emblazoned with the words “cook the colony”.(ABC News)

Police are investigating after a colonial monument in Melbourne’s north was targeted by vandals, following a string of similar incidents around the city in the lead up to January 26.

A stone monument to Captain Cook at the entrance to Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North was toppled and spray-painted with the words, “cook the colony”.

The monument had been the target of several acts of vandalism in recent years, with one incident in 2020 seeing the monument crossed out with white paint, with the word “shame” painted across it.

Following that incident, former Yarra Mayor Misha Coleman said that despite the continued vandalisation, there were no plans to remove the monument.

Investigations ongoing, police said

The latest incident comes after two other statues around Melbourne were the target of vandalism earlier in the week.

A statue of Queen Victoria was splashed with red paint near Melbourne’s CBD, while a statue of Captain Cook was sawn off at the ankles, toppled, and painted with the phrase, “The colony will fall”.

The incidents are presumed to be in protest against the commemoration of colonial figures in public spaces.

Police said in a statement that investigations into whether the three incidents were connected was ongoing.

“The plaque has been pushed over and sprayed with red paint,” the statement read.

“It is yet to be established when the damage took place, and the investigation is ongoing.”

Police are urging anyone with information about any of the incidents to contact Crime Stoppers.

Invasion day? Worry about the one taking place.

The British Australian Community has produced a blockbuster video, providing a brief historical account of what made Australia the great nation that it became in a miraculously short time.

Wonderful scenes are shown of the Australian people as we used to know them. In contrast with these rousing scenes is the threat of runaway migration that includes people from incompatible cultures with suspect intentions. See my previous comments about the Chinese community.