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January 11.

Reflections on 11 January - Gibbets and Darwinism: “The bodies of the Dharug killed were to be placed in iron gibbets and hung from trees as a warning.”

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January 10.

Reflections on 10 January - Attitudes past and present: “These savages...appear to us intelligent, cheerful and very deserving.”

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January 9.

Reflections on 9 January - ‘A cult of forgetfulness’, “...it would seem as though the protection of our Aborigines might be regarded as a mere cant term.”

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January 8.

Reflections on 8 January - Massacres and Civilisation, “...he admitted that he and his party had killed 'between twenty and thirty' Aboriginal men...”

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January 7.

Reflections on 7 January - Invasion and resistance, “...which resists our usurped authority and dominion...”

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January 6.

Reflections on 6 January - Occupation and sovereignty, “...putting down the Indigenous resistance described as 'great slaughter'.

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January 5.

Reflections on 5 January - A postscript on another dimension of violence in Australian society.

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January 4.

Reflections on 4 January - William Ferguson, a fighter for justice for his Indigenous people.

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January 3.

Reflections on 3 January - Australia’s human history began over 60,000 years ago. Then in the late 18th century, invading soldiers, convicts, “explorers” and settlers began to take over…

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January 2.

Reflections on 2 December - Barbarous dispossession, “...the wanton and barbarous manner in which many of them have been destroyed...”

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January 1.

Reflections on 1 January - Imperial anticipation of conflict. The Gamaraigal people must have thought they were confronted by barbarians...

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