The final update of the project mapping massacres on Australia’s colonial frontier adds a further 113 sites where six or more people were killed
  • RandyLahey [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :aus-delenda-est:

    ps: any comrades in sydney, i highly recommend taking your libs to see the surprisingly excellent "unsettled" exhibition at the australian museum

    it was created by first nations people, it has a very sobering big-screen version of the massacres-over-time map in this article, plus a tonne of shit documenting the genocidally bloodthirsty behaviour of colonists and psychopaths like macquarie, plus a whole bunch on the horrors of the stolen generations

    my partner always kinda rolled her eyes as i rambled incoherently about imperialism and settler colonial genocide, but i took her to that and she was really shaken and finally gets my hatred for this fucking country

    edit to add reviewer praise for the exhibition:

    "this proves truth is now officially dead" - andrew bolt

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Genocide has just been straight up official policy at times:

      https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/the-black-line

      We haven't really stopped either, police murder indigenous people with impunity and on the rare occasion they're even charge they're acquitted by all-white juries:

      https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/indigenous-deaths-custody-chapter-3-comparison-indigenous-and-non-indigenous-deaths

      https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-14/nt-police-association-rolfe-not-guilty-independent-investigation/100905574

      :aus-delenda-est:

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah the indigenous people of Australia were hunted down and murdered. Actual, literal genocide. Thousands of languages and cultures extinguished.

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    always was, always will be

    and soon? will be forever :aus-delenda-est:

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Emeritus professor Lyndall Ryan, who led the project, said that stockmen in the NT commonly operated under the orders of big pastoral companies.

    “Particularly after 1860, it is becoming clear that most of the massacres are being conducted by employees of major companies who are bankrolling these big pastoral leases, or mining leases,” Ryan said.

    “These companies have more money to arm their employees with good firearms to go out and do their work. It’s not the small selector who’s killing Aboriginal people, it’s these big companies who have experienced overseers, experienced stockmen, to patrol and contain the Aboriginal people.”