All Daily Entries
November 16.
Reflections on 16 November - Concentration camp. It was how we felt about being Aboriginal that mattered.
November 15.
Reflections on 15 November - Subversion and separation of children from parents.
November 14.
Reflections on 14 November - Disproportionate killing. Conflict and mass killing in North Queensland.
November 13.
Reflections on 13 November - Military operations to Land Rights. Soldiery on the Western Front of Tasmania.
November 12.
Reflections on 12 November - “ My country – all gone.” Atrocities committed...women kidnapped...traumatic loss of land..denial of tenure...
November 11.
Reflections on 11 November - Wholesale slaughter. “Oral history...along the tip of Cape York still refers to Jardine's wholesale slaughter of Aboriginal camps.”
November 10.
Reflections on 10 November - ‘Slaughter had become routine’. Casualty figures – A ratio of 25:0.
November 9.
Reflections on 9 November - Mass killings. ”..at least 100 were killed in nine known mass killings of six or more, and many others were killed in ones, twos and threes.”
November 8.
So That We Remember. Reflections on 8 November - The effect of firearms. “...this fails to fully explain why white violence was so indiscriminate.”
November 7.
Reflections on 7 November - Warfare and martial law. Tactics used by the Darug people but casualties still occurred.
November 6.
Reflections on 6 November - A catalogue of destruction. “Had an encounter with the blacks; shot a lot.”
November 5.
Reflections on 5 November - A graphic account of a massacre. ‘Justice must indeed be blind’.
November 4.
Reflections on 4 November - ‘Respect’ and Disrespect’ for human bodies. “They must hang till they fall in pieces.”
November 3.
Reflections on 3 November - Oodgeroo, the poet & campaigner. “A lifetime campaigner against racism, who never lost her fierceness.”
November 2.
Reflections on 2 November - “There was no “documentary recognition of the quality and courage of those who were conquered”.
November 1.
Reflections on 1 November - Martial law and order: 'Parrawa Parrawa. Go away you white buggers – what business have you here.'