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April 8.

Reflections on 8 April - A sharing culture. “...sharing was so central to Aboriginal values...”

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April 7.

Reflections on 7 April - No empty places.  It is impossible to conceive of any place that is not embedded with Indigenous story. There are no empty places in Australia.

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April 6.

Reflections on 6 April - Taking possession of land. “Death was perpetually present on Flinders Island.”

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April 5.

Reflections on 5 April - Non-recognition of Native Title. A public appeal over 40 years ago to modern Australia.

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April 4.

Reflections on 4 April - Imperial frontier warfare. “People whose proprietary Right to the Soil we have not the slightest ground for disputing.”

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April 3.

Reflections on 3 April - Reckless barbarity. The Planet Creek killings. “This terror has been inspired in them by a long course of barbarous actions.”

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April 2.

Reflections on 2 April - Avoid asking challenging questions: Shooting of Aboriginal people. Their lives were changed irrevocably.

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April 1.

Reflections on 1 April - Burned like dead cattle: Reports of slaughtered bodies, “How could a violent frontier exist between British subjects?”.

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March 31.

Reflections on 31 March - Our lives have been wrecked... - “Every shape and form of murder, yes, mass murder, was used against us…”

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March 30.

Reflections on 30 March - War and courage not commemorated... - …perhaps the most generous tribute [to the courage of Indigenous people] was paid by Edward Eyre.

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March 29.

Reflections on 29 March - Practice of poisoning - The practice of poisoning Aboriginal people.

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March 28.

Reflections on 28 March - Need for a Treaty: “Rendered powerless without the protection of a treaty...”

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March 27.

Reflections on 27 March - Colonial frontier wars: Lieutenant Sorell’s response to stories of abuse of Aboriginal women.

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March 26.

Reflections on 26 March - ‘The song is gone.’ - Oodgeroo, Judith Wright and the ‘Bora Ring’

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