My mother was born under a tree.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is the The Opposition’s Indigenous Australian spokeswoman.
Today she addressed the National Press Club and where she said “colonisation has been good for Indigenous Australians.”
Price has exposed the short-sightedness of Australian voters, knowing that many of us have no real knowledge of the rape and pillaging these ‘colonists’ visited upon Terra Nullius, this nobody’s land, this Australia.
Where they massacred the indigenous inhabitants with impunity.
I live two miles away from the site of the East Ballina Massacre where it is believed some victims were never buried, their bodies being either dumped off the cliff at Black Head or abandoned on Angels Beach. Men women and children hunted down by troopers from Queensland, chased to the edge of the cliff overlooking one of the most favoured surf spots up here.
Massacres .. where colonisation has been good for indigenous Australians.
The Battle of Pinjara.
The Lake Minimup Massacre.
The La Grange Expedition Massacre.
The Flying Foam Massacre.
The Halls Creek Massacre.
“We’ve got running water,” said Price.
The Appin Massacre.
The Bathurst Massacre.
The Waterloo Creek Massacre
The Myall Creek Massacre
“We’ve got readily available food,” said Price.
The Gwydir River War.
The Murrumbidgee Wiradjuri Wars.
The Rufus River Massacre.
The Evans Head Massacre.
The Nyngan Massacre.
“I mean everything my grandfather had when he was growing up, because he first saw whitefellas in his early adolescence, we now have, ” said Price.
The Risdon Cove Massacre.
The Cape Grim Massacre.
The Van Diemens Land Genocide.
The Convincing Grounds Massacre.
The Faithful Massacre.
The Wangaratta Massacre.
“If we keep telling Aboriginal people that they are victims, well, we are effectively removing their agency,” said Price.
The Campapsi Plains Massacre.
The Murdering Gully Massacre.
The Gippsland Massacre.
The Warrigal Creek Massacre.
The Cape Otway Massacre.
The Hospital Creek Massacre.
“We are treating Aboriginal people differently. And we treat no other group of Australians in this manner,” said Price.
The Butchers Tree Massacre.
The Fremantle Massacre.
The Kimberley Killing Times.
Price received a standing ovation from a crowd that included No leader Mundine, Coalition MPs David Littleproud, Michaelia Cash, Bridget McKenzie, Kerrynne Liddle and Barnaby Joyce, and conservative commentators Tom Switzer and John Roskam.
The Avenue Range Station Massacre.
The Whiteside Poisoning.
The Kilcoy Poisoning.
The Upper Burnett Massacre.
The Balonne Massacre.
The Condamine Killings.
The Paddy Island Massacre.
The Massacre of the Yeeman Tribe.
“If I’ve got anything to do with it, we’ll actually start treating Aboriginal people like Australian citizens,” said Price.
The Water View Massacre.
The Medway ranges Massacre.
The Goulbolba Massacre.
The Bowen River Disappearances.
The Mistake Creek Massacre.
The Battle Camp Massacre.
“When asked whether Indigenous people suffered the consequences of British settlement, Price said: “I’ll be honest: no.”
The Blackfellows Creek Massacre.
The Cook District Massacre.
The Welwyn Range Massacre.
The Cape Bedford Massacre.
The Battle Mountain Massacre.
The Diamantina River Massacre.
The Speewah Massacre.
The Barrow Creek Massacre.
The Florida Station Massacres.
The Canning Stock Route Killings.
The Bedford Downs Poisoning.
The Forrest River Massacre.
The Bentinck Island Massacres.
The Coniston Massacre.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
Fair we have not been to the original inhabitants of this land, but more than fair have we been to the fair of hair and skin.
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Quotes taken from the Sydney Morning Herald article by Paul Sakkat.
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My Scottish GGGGGGrandfather arrived and was employed by the Australian Agriculture Company in 1838, given two packhorses, some sheep and told to “go west”, who knows what that led to?
Later in life, he was supervisor of the Peel River gold mines, so probably a tough old bugger?