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May 11.

Reflections on 11 May - Dawn raids and Resistance. Dawn raids, dispossession, disease, hunger and the military stir Indigenous resistance.

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May 10.

Reflections on 10 May - The long white silence. The appeal for a Makarrata and silence.

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May 9.

Reflections on 9 May - Occupied for thousands of years. Thousands upon thousands of years of occupation of the land.

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May 8.

Reflections on 8 May - Justifications for violent dispossession. The ‘civilising ‘ of the Indigenous inhabitants.

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May 7.

Reflections on 7 May - The country was occupied by force. Varied colonial views and an aggressive (and not silent) majority.

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May 6.

Reflections on 6 May - Exploitation and Two Cultures. The exploitation of Indigenous workers.

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May 5.

Reflections on 5 May - Men, women and children killed. The carnage of dawn camp-raids.

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May 4.

Reflections on 4 May - ‘...hunted down like native dogs.' Reasons for Indigenous resistance and the extent of blood-stained settler reprisals.

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May 3.

Reflections on 3 May - A range of armaments used...at Risdon Creek.

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May 2.

Reflections on 2 May - Generation upon generation, and Indigenous settlements in the Brisbane region.

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May 1.

Reflections on 1 May - The cost in lives and relationships that colonisation brought to Indigenous people.

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