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May 31.

Reflections on 31 May - Laments and Chains. “On many mornings and evenings I heard their loud laments.”

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May 30.

Reflections on 30 May - ‘Conditions of successful colonization’. Colonisation...was not for those of tender or restless conscience.

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May 29.

Reflections on 29 May - 'Blood and bullet' civilization: Indigenous populations and their despair.

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May 28.

Reflections on 28 May - Two massacres: Queensland snapshot of a massacre.

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May 27.

Reflections on 27 May - A National Referendum on 27 May 1967, a momentous turning point in Australian history.

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May 26.

Reflections on 26 May - ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART.

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May 25.

Reflections on 25 May - Further ‘dispersals’: Interwoven violence and “deadly dispersals”.

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May 24.

Reflections on 24 May - Crimes unpunished: Official inaction or murderous action.

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May 23.

Reflections on 23 May - Pemulwuy’s death: Pemulwuy – dying to defend his homeland.

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May 22.

Reflections on 22 May - Pemulwuy – war leader: Pemulwuy and ‘open war’ on the Hawkesbury.

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May 21.

Reflections on 21 May - indigenous holocaust. Squalor in conditions for, and white attitudes of, Tasmanian Indigenous survivors.

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May 20.

Reflections on 20 May - Disproportionate settler retaliation. Unpaid Aboriginal labour and worse - massacres.

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May 19.

Reflections on 19 May - ‘...the original owners of the soil,’ and The ‘inhuman’ abduction of Indigenous personnel.

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May 18.

Reflections on 18 May - Revenging Reprisals: The cost in human lives of retributive raids.

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May 17.

Reflections on 17 May - Aboriginal access to land: Early mentions of ‘land rights’, reserves and extermination.

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May 16.

Reflections on 16 May - Instances of ‘Dispersals’. The euphemism of murderous ‘dispersal’.

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May 15.

Reflections on 15 May - The utmost secrecy: Function of the Native Mounted Police of Queensland.

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May 14.

Reflections on 14 May - In the wake of ‘explorers’. An explorer’s journey in his perceptions.

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May 13.

Reflections on 13 May - Elliston killings at Waterloo Bay in South Australia in 1848.

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May 12.

Reflections on 12 May - Humanitarian concern: A humanitarian’s reading of the situation.

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