All Daily Entries
December 6.
Reflections on 6 December - Massacres again: Causes for the marked reduction of the Aboriginal population.
December 5.
Reflections on 5 December - Guns and dawn raids: Frontier districts in Queensland bristled with guns.
December 3.
Reflections on 3 December - No colonist was ever charged in Van Diemen's Land, let alone committed for trial, for assaulting or killing an Aborigine.
December 2.
Reflections on 2 December - Sharing not dispossessing: How can the Aborigines ever own property... if they persist in sharing?
November 30.
Reflections on 30 November - Excerpts from the address given by Pope John Paul II to Indigenous people at Alice Springs on 29 November, 1986.
November 29.
Reflections on 29 November - Ratio of killings: “...mass killings of Aborigines were a key feature..”.
November 28.
Reflections on 28 November - Contrasts in peace and slaughter: Two pictures of differing relations.
November 27.
Reflections on 27 November - Questions raised. Extract continued from entry for 26 November: An Explorer Explains.
November 25.
Reflections on 25 November - ‘...justice, forbearance...land’. “Unease about settlers' abuses against Aboriginal people in the region.”
November 24.
Reflections on 24 November - Military police state and POWs: “Prisoners of war” or “subjects of the British crown”?
November 23.
Reflections on 23 November - Chaining or killing: ‘...he has killed and will kill blacks.’
November 22.
Reflections on 22 November - ‘...a brutal history.’ “British colonisation was seen as both an invasion and an awesome social experiment...”
November 21.
Reflections on 21 November - Dundalli, Indigenous warrior: Indigenous leader Dundalli and the legal silencing of Aboriginal claims and experience.
November 20.
Reflections on 20 November - Settlers’ might over right: “It would be 'extremely impolitic' to try settlers for killing Aborigines.”
November 19.
Reflections on 18 November - More massacres: Commentary on massacres in Queensland and Victoria.
November 18.
Reflections on 18 November - Conflict and white supremacy. Forcible removal of Indigenous people.
November 17.
Reflections on 17 November - “Domestic service was a cruel time for my mother, like so many women of her generation.”