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Pointing and winking at elders, telling mob not to interrupt the treaty body .... When raising confronting questions mob are told, "you don't have to be involved". This is already a disastor.#sallyanneatkinson

Fall video - https://youtu.be/3-2GMU0fOxw

gilburri's links - https://linktr.ee/gilburri

Sallyanne Atkinson makes her debut speech for the QLD Path To Treaty Bill committee.

Full video https://youtu.be/C78jYPtQ6Eg

Great Grandfather Norman, ANZAC hero.

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2. Onamission

3. Go beast

4. Gear'd Up

5. Dead Parrot

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I walk the sacred kululu pathway from Rainbow Beach to Carlo Sandblow on Kabi country. I remember the story of my ancestor who walked this place in 1852. i yarn about some Kabi history of kululu...  Thomas King shipwreck , duramboi, the Wangabillie letter and warriors Mickelo, Dunroburri & Perikah.. This is deadly history that I speak of thru the eyes of Gilburri.

Watch the video of my walk. https://youtu.be/6gTRPmzpLAw

The Australian War Memorial is a shrine that's meant to commemorate the sacrifice of those who have died in war in this country.

But this country's first wars - the Frontier Wars - are missing.

In parts of the Memorial, Aboriginal people are represented as gargoyles - with dirty rain water pouring out of our mouths.

Despite spending half- a- billion- dollars on redeveloping the Memorial, the gargoyles will stay.

Don’t you get it? Don’t you understand? We are the world’s oldest living culture, we are not just from this country but we are *of* this country.

The way the Memorial treats us is indicative of how you view us.

It is shameful that I have to come to the Senate to tell everyone that First Nations people are not monuments. Our cultures are not set in stone.

We need to tell the truth about this country's history, so we can move forward together.

Recruitment of troopers One of the infamous euphemisms researchers encounter when reviewing primary sources relating to the activities of the NMP is “dispersal”, which has been shown to refer to the shooting and killing of groups of Aboriginal people.9 We suggest here that another probable euphemism is the term “recruitment”. This innocuous phrase suggests an orderly process of enlisting willing employees, but deeper investigation suggests that the process was almost certainly not as innocent, straightforward or homogeneous as the term implies. Although likely to be incomplete, a survey of known recruitment events in the nineteenth century (see Table 1) reveals a range of locations from where men were recruited. The emphasis in these data on NSW/Victoria, Wide Bay and southern Queensland recruits partially reflects the early interest from contemporary newspapers in the workings of the NMP and the location of the “frontier” through the 1850s and 1860s. In total, this amounts to a minimum of 352 men. There are no known descriptions of what took place during any of these recruiting drives and no known accounts from Aboriginal men of how they were recruited. A careful reading between the lines of historical records, however, suggests several possible methods, including coercion, kidnapping, inducement and even highly qualified “voluntary” enlistment.

The event at Hornet Bank Station, inland from Maryborough on 27 October 1857 served as a catalyst for a violent European retaliation in South East Queensland upon a massive and merciless scale.

This letter by G.D. Lang is a vivid account of a cross-section of that reaction along the Hornet Bank — Maryborough axis, persisting for months after the original assault.

Maryborough, Wide Bay, 31 March 1858.

My Dear Uncle,

I write to you at the present moment.. . to make you acquainted with the proceedings of the Native Police Force in this district and of the inhabitants generally, in reference to the Blacks, and I am sure you will not only be astounded but indignant and disgusted with the details that I have to communicate to you.

When I first arrived in this district the topic of general conversation was the murder of the Frazer family on the Dawson by the Blacks of that district and the hope was universally expressed that the atrocious actors in that tragedy would meet with condign punishment. I joined in this hope believing in good faith that no illegal nor dishonourable not to say barbarous or inhuman means should be resorted to for that purpose.

On my way to the interior however, I was undeceived as to the proposed method of punishing the Blacks and I now know that nothing could have been more unworthy of human beings than the procedure both of the members of the Police Force and the white population than their horrid indiscriminate murders of the Blacks. I learned from various sources that a party of twelve — squatters and their confidential overseers — went out mounted and armed to the teeth and scoured the country for blacks, away from the scrubs of the murder of the Frazers altogether, and shot upwards of eighty men, women and children.

A poem, written for the entertainment and amusement of early settlers, and relating a series of incidents over a three day period during the campaign known as the Battle of One Tree Hill