In 1788 the primitive local natives did not know what a flag was nevertheless design or make one!

For many decades the indoctrination has been Australian natives were from one and the same traditional culture. A programming that is just not true.

Nobody’s land is a concept that a land mass can be legally deemed to be unoccupied or uninhabited. A doctrine that has existed in the law of nations throughout the development of Western democracy. A concept derived from ancient Roman law that ownership by seizure of a thing no one owns is legitimate. Many treasures have been claimed this way from cache chests, piles of junk left on nature strips, in the sand of beaches and rubbish tips.

Historical scholars have handled claims of possession that were regularly centred on a series of assorted legal rationales – like those of discovery, improvement, and settlement – as though they were all slices of a solitary legal doctrine that they referred to as terra nullius. There is no reliable historical evidence to prove that the British government was influenced by, or invoked, terra nullius, res nullius or occupation as it began to colonise New South Wales.

The rise of the British Empire in Australia began when the First Fleet arrived in January 1788 through possession and settlement. A desire to establish peaceful, prosperous, British way of life for all who lived on the Eastern board of the great southern land.

One hundred and thirteen years from the First Fleet’s arrival federation occurred and the British colonies become one nation of people with one self-determined sovereignty. The Commonwealth of Australia.

Back in 1788, the boundaries of New South Wales were set at Cape York in the north, the bottom of Van Diemen’s land in the south and the meridian 135° east as the western boundary.

Next Van Dieman’s Land settlement by the British commenced in 1803. The first official settlement was established to ensure French explorers could not claim it. In 1825, Van Dieman’s Land became a separate Colony to New South Wales whose boundary was at the same time extended west to include Melville Island.

Van Dieman’s Land was renamed Tasmania in 1856.

In 1829, the British settlement on the Swan River was given birth to and two years later the British government officially claimed the whole of New Holland. Land limits were set at West Cape Howe (south), Hartog’s Island (west) and Cape Londonderry (north), with adjacent islands included. New Holland was renamed Western Australia.

Next in the timeline South Australia’s official British settlement started on 28 December 1836, when it was taken from the southern part of New South Wales. Kangaroo Island and other islands were included when the state was proclaimed at The Old Gum Tree by Governor John Hindmarsh. In 1861 South Australia acquired the New South Wales ‘panhandle’ when its western border was continued to the West Australian border and in 1863 the area of New South Wales north of South Australia was attached to South Australia.

British settlement had slowly been swelling to coastal parts of northern Australia from the 1820’s. In 1847 the colony of North Australia began with its main settlement at Port Curtis. After six months this new colony failed and was officially reincorporated into New South Wales in 1849.

Escaped convicts, whalers, and sealers from the 1790’s had settled in parts of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales. To warn off the French an official settlement was created in 1802 however this was abandoned shortly after. In 1836 settlers from Tasmania began locating large flocks of sheep to the vicinity. As a result the area became the colony of Victoria in 1851 when it separated from New South Wales. The natural border lies along the top of the southern bank of the Murray River from the South Australian border with a straight line from the start of the river to Cape Howe.

A penal outpost for some arduous convicts was established at Moreton Bay in 1824. In 1825 outcrops of coal was found along the banks of the Upper Brisbane River. Graziers, miners, and farmers moved into coastal and inland areas. The established penal settlement was closed in 1842 and free settlement expanded.  In 1859 Queen Victoria granted approval to establish the new colony of Queensland which was created by continuing the eastern South Australian border north and separating it from New South Wales, west of Point Danger following the rivers and watersheds and latitude 29° south. In 1862 Queensland’s western boundary north of latitude 26° south, was moved further west to give it access to a possible northern port.

Possession and settlement were the legal concept used by the British government to justify the settlement of Australia as a penal and free settler realm. Convicts formed the majority of Australia’s population for the first few decades of settlement where disease and malnutrition amongst the entire population were widespread. Due to the gold rush era and free pioneer settlers journeying to Australia from all around the world the nineteenth century population lived at the frontier of not only a new terrain, but of a new society.

The final borders of the six British colonies at the time of Federation took from 1788 to 1863 to be established. Seventy-five years. Enough time for the birth of three to four generations of the human species. A mixing pot of human genealogies regardless of skin tone or place of birth heritage adding to human richness. People living and dying communally on the great southern land in an emerging ethnicity.

At the point in time Britain claimed Australia as its own in 1788 there was no ruling government or one nation of people in existence on the large continental land mass. There was no evidence to see cultivation of the land or any built permanent habitations. The appearance of mainland Australia and the island Tasmania was that of an empty land scantily populated by clusters of local native occupants.

The Tasmanian local native was different from the mainland local native in many ways. Their hair was woolly. They used the simplest technology in the world and did not know how to make fire. Depicted as having an outer friendliness, ‘a noble savage, simple and virtuous’. Tasmanian local native mobs were made up of five different clans with five different languages. The mobs travelled around in groups no larger than 40-50 people. The number of local natives was much less than the settlers imagined. Some say this local native race is extinct due to an act of genocide. Many Australians today are descendants of these human beings dispelling this world of men myth against natural man.

Nothing much has been recorded about the Tasmanian local natives until the 1970’s. Tasmania itself was confirmed in October 1798 by Matthew Flinders and George Bass as an island with a waterway between it and the mainland. This discovery put Van Diemen’s Land outside the British possession claim. Under the eyes of the French in 1802 the British took possession of the island.

The strait which ran between the two land masses had a scatter of islands covered in seals. Seal skins were valued as an easily rendered commodity that could be traded in overseas markets for cash and goods like tea, silks, and porcelain, needed by the new colony. In eight years the number of seals was greatly diminished. The sealers were mostly ex-sailors and ex-convicts who arrived in the late 18th and early 19th century.

The sealers relied on and mated with kidnapped local native women taken from the Tasmanian island and the mainland southern coast. The local native women knew how to build shelters, crew on sealing boats, catch fish and dive for shellfish, find bird eggs, trap wallabies, stitch jackets and make shoes from kangaroo skin and tails. They showed the whitefella sealers how to kill and pluck mutton birds and squeeze the oil out of the carcass. In turn the mutton bird feathers, and oil were sold to settlers to fill bedspreads and light lamps.

Annette Mansell a Tasmanian local native and sealer descendant when interviewed in the 1970’s stated she was not an aboriginal just a descendant of one. “Not much aboriginal in any of us. The women were taken for sexual purposes and labour. Just compare the aboriginals that were here, they are nothing like the descendants. There are no Aboriginals. There is a hell of a difference. Not much in any of us. Not even half caste in Tasmania. No one can talk the aboriginal language. Don’t know how many. Why should we be called aboriginal? Not anyone can prove it. Why should we be? It’s only what they have been told. I don’t know it’s what’s been told as history. I don’t know anything about it, and I don’t think there is anyone alive who could tell you anything honestly and truthfully about aborigines. It’s only what I’ve learnt and what you’ve learnt. From what I’ve read they were given a hard time.”

There is no pictorial evidence in the first 25 years of Tasmania’s life. In 1803 the first British settlement consisted of 49 people including 8 soldiers and 26 convicts who built a road up the hill. The Risdon Cove so called massacre recently again has been investigated by historians who have determined ‘The massacre’ did not happen. 

At the point in time Britain claimed Australia as its own in 1788 there was no ruling government or one nation of people in existence on the large land mass. There was no evidence to see cultivation of the land or any built permanent habitations. The appearance of mainland Australia and the island Tasmania was that of an empty land scantily populated by clusters of local native occupants.

We know today that the Australian local natives did not all hunt with a throwing stick called the boomerang, or play the white settler named musical instrument, didgeridoo. The white settler coined corroboree differed ‘from mob to mob’. Some buried their dead. Some cremated their dead. Some wrapped their dead in paperbark and left them to decompose in the open air on raised platforms or in trees, and returned months later to stuff the bones in wood poles. For many decades the indoctrination has been Australian natives were from one and the same ancient unique traditional culture. A programming that is just not true.

Boomerangs are an internationally recognised symbol of Australia. The origin of the word is not known. Plausibly adapted in 1822 in New South Wales from an extinct Aboriginal language word “boumarang”.

It is widely stated that boomerangs are believed to be the first flying objects heavier-than-air invented by humans. The apparatus is an ancient throwing stick used for hand to hand fighting, hunting, music, and sport. Historical evidence of boomerangs have been found throughout the world. The oldest found in Poland is made of mammoth’s tusk and dated some 23,000 years. The ancient tool has been found also in Egypt, South India, and North America. King Tutankhamen’s tomb contained an extensive collection of boomerangs both the straight flying and returning variety in 1323 BCE.  

In Australia, larger, heavier boomerangs were used by inland and desert people; lighter boomerangs were thrown by coastal and high-country people. The vast majority of boomerangs used were of the non-returning variety. Some boomerangs were not thrown at all but were used in hand to hand combat by local natives. Some were carved and decorated some were not.

Fact is the existence of the traditional native boomerang is restricted to the Eastern and Southern Australia. The boomerang was unknown to local native people in Tasmania, parts of the Northern Territory, half of South Australia and the northern parts of Queensland and Western Australia.

There was no written language anywhere in the Australian native history before European settlement. Most recollections of the time of early settlement are an artist’s impression or oral storytelling of what life was like before that time.  

In a corroboree the local natives tell the stories from their history through singing, dancing, body paint and ornamentation. Rock carvings and abstract ground patterns may have had religious meaning. The stories are known as the Dreaming.

Corroborees were an important way to indoctrinate fledgling generations about cultural practices and values, language and laws, histories, and family relationships. Stories about the Rainbow Serpent have been passed down from generation to generation. Dreamtime stories told via Chinese whispers from which inaccuracies, new ideas, and oversights typically accumulated in the retelling, so the story told by the last orator differs significantly from that of the 250 years ago orator.

All human civilizations have the equivalent of the dreaming told in nursery rhymes, myths and folklore, and fairy stories that have been passed down over the centuries. Told and retold with variations along the way.

Before settlement in ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia’ over 500 different clan mobs or ‘nations’ are said to have lived around the continent. I repeat again an abundance of different and distinctive cultures, beliefs, and languages. The didgeridoo in Northern Australia was used by local native men as a magic charm for obtaining wives and was not found in Southern Australia.

Today, about three percent of Australia’s population claim to identify with or have Australian native heritage in their genealogy. 3 in 100. 30 in 1000. 300 in 10,000. 30,000 in a 1,000,000. 765,000 in 25,500,000. The number of claims of ‘Aboriginal Race’ identity is increasing year in and year out.

There are over 200 distinct present-day aboriginal communities with their own dialects and customs. Many with pale skin call themselves ‘black’ or ‘aboriginal’ due to identifying with a mob and want to exclude all who are different to their claim to an ancient cultural heritage and the material advantages that come with that assertion. Many of these individuals do not see themselves as or call themselves an Australian. They have their own flag, and passport and claim First Nation sovereignty to demonstrate that they are committed to the principle that the singular new First Nations People is separate from the Australian nation.

There is nothing inclusive about these well documented divisive actions. Australia needs to revoke and repeal all legislation that has ‘Aboriginal’ ‘Indigenous’ or ‘First Nations’ wording or intent in it.