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AboriginalAustraliaFirst Fleet 1788Norman TindaleSir William Blackstone

Anthropology pulls the wool over our faces to allow the sheep in wolves’ clothes to settle into the paddock with the flock Part 2 of 2

Past injustice has been acknowledged – but modern Australia has allowed it to dominate identity, law, and narrative beyond what is proportionate or...

AboriginalAustraliaLois Lowitja O'DonoghueSocial Labels

Being a legal “Aboriginal” today is a wank! An over-the-top glorification of a character that no longer exists…

In good faith and in the public interest let’s start having some honest conversation about the numerous people who have been given credit...

AboriginalAustraliacultural identityDavid Gulpilil

Born emersed in the Australian bush and died emersed in Australian civilisation David Gulpilil Part 3 of 3

Airlie Thomas, a whitefella nurse was David’s on and off de facto wife around 1990 -1993. Airlie Thomas believed David had an internal...

AboriginalArtAustraliaDavid Gulpilil

David Gulpilil shivering like a fish in the billabong before going back to his waterhole to be a little fish again Part 2 of 3

David Gulpilil is one of the last first-contact natives. He was about eight years old when he first saw a whitefella land in...

AboriginalAustraliacultural identityDavid Gulpilil

‘Full Red Blood’ Australian David Gulpilil the boy then the man the camera found irresistible and mesmerising Part 1 of 3

David Gulpilil was born an Australian citizen with full citizenship rights. The Aboriginal flag and the red, black and yellow associated political and...

AboriginalAlbert NamatjiraAustraliacitizenshipRex Battarbee

Albert Namatjira – Speak the truth, strip beliefs back to the core – Part 2 of 3

Albert Namatjira was a proud Australian full blood local native. The word Aboriginal is and was during his lifetime a word used for...

AboriginalAlbert NamatjiraArtAustraliacitizenshipRex Battarbee

Albert Namatjira is happy with what whitefella gave not what the blackfella takes – Part 3 of 3

It was not what the whitefella gave Albert Namatjira, more exactly, it was what the blackfella took from him and society that made...

AboriginalAlbert NamatjiraArtAustraliaRex Battarbee

Behind the veil Albert Namatjira’s spirit is restless – Part 1 of 3

Albert Namatjira was not a modern Australian Aboriginal he was a full blood Australian native who by law was labelled an aborigine. Albert...

AboriginalArtAustraliaGeoffrey BardonRace

Whitefella Geoffrey Bardon gave ‘Dot’ painting to the modern Aboriginal in 1971

A local native Arrernte artist has explained that ‘dot painting’ is about cultural law and watercolour paintings were about culture of country followed...

AboriginalAustraliacultural identityDavid Gulpilil

Modern ‘Aboriginal’ remote communities are artificial townships that breed abuse

The First Nations (not Australian terminology) political cult’s ‘Aboriginal Race’ remote communities in Australia are artificial townships where English, Australia’s national language, is...