Category: Life Journey

02/04/2023

Blackfella Maria Lock married a whitefella, a convict, who the government assigned to her

Blackfella Maria Lock lived a good life in Australia where she enjoyed peace, prosperity and happiness. Although the British with their armed protection had come charging into the landscape it did not stop her from having a happy childhood full of optimism and playful fun in the sunshine. Not everyday of her life was free of depression and despair and initially living a life away […]

02/04/2023

Sit quietly and you can hear Bennelong’s blackfella chuckling

Bennelong’s voice has trickled through the narrative of First Fleet onlookers. It chats to us from over two centuries ago to current time and naturally has been translated and misconstrued in turn by native mobs, anthropologists, historians, story tellers, and linguists along the way. Bennelong is an unfading elder and his spirit does speak to us from behind the veil. Bennelong is reflective about the […]

02/04/2023

British settlement is guilty of giving all Australians citizenship power

British settlement is guilty of giving all Australians a legal citizenship power, blackfella, whitefella all the same! Jus soli or birthright citizenship is not an automatic right in many countries around the world. For the past couple of centuries the term ‘nation’ has referred to a group of people who are geographically, culturally, and politically integrated. For them the idea of legal citizenship is powerful. […]

02/04/2023

British settlement’s biggest threat to blackfella mobs was a loss of hunter gatherer lifestyle

The 1788 British settlement’s biggest threat to local native, mobs was the loss of their hunter gatherer way of life. Today we have a stealthful transfer of all Australian citizen’s common-wealth to a select faction of Aboriginal owned corporations. In the first year of British settlement the local natives attacked unarmed convicts and fishermen, and sporadically, armed officers and soldiers. No one grasped that living […]

01/04/2023

Who is kidding who about blackfella inclusion in the Australian constitution?

Who is kidding who about inclusion in the Australian constitution? The blackfella’s of today want their own national sovereignty “a space of our own, free from influence of whitefella government” The Torres Strait Island flag was adopted by the nation of Torres Strait Islander peoples in May 1992. The First Nations national flag was first raised on 9 July 1971 at a land rights activists […]

01/04/2023

Torres Strait islander savagery ceased with British civilization

Torres Strait islanders are people who graduated from inter island warfare and savagery to British civilization in little more than half a century. Travelling through the Torres Strait throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries was a dangerous passage for European seafarers. Apart from a maze of largely not surveyed reefs, mariners had to negotiate passage through waters inhabited by local islander tribes who […]