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March 5.

Reflections on 5 March - Oppression of indigenous women: The abduction and enslavement of native women in Bass Strait.

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March 4.

Reflections on 4 March - A dossier of atrocities: “...witnessed most horrible cruelties committed on the natives.”

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March 3.

Reflections on 3 March - Different understanding of land: Custodianship or real-estate.

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March 1.

Reflections on 1 March - Maltreatment and Massacre: “...the Aborigines were 'in a manner outlawed in their own country...”

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February 28.

Reflections on 28 February - “Men, women and children are butchered...” - “...clear the country of them entirely.”

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February 19.

Reflections on 19 February - ‘...their numbers diminished...’ - Aboriginal peoples had a ‘plain and sacred right’ to their soil.

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February 18.

Reflections on 18 February - ‘...shot and slaughtered wholesale...’ - “another reminder of the quiet extermination of Aboriginal people.”

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February 17.

Reflections on 17 February - ‘They all used to hide their children.’ - “...The invaders wanted it all.”

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February 16.

Reflections on 16 February - ‘The land was taken...by force.’ - “The land was taken...rhetorically, as well as by force.”

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February 15.

Reflections on 15 February - Pastoralist companies and their killings: “Aboriginal resistance to the intrusion of settlers into their country was widespread and persistent.”

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