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May 24.

Reflections on 24 May - Crimes unpunished: Official inaction or murderous action.

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May 23.

Reflections on 23 May - Pemulwuy’s death: Pemulwuy – dying to defend his homeland.

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May 22.

Reflections on 22 May - Pemulwuy – war leader: Pemulwuy and ‘open war’ on the Hawkesbury.

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May 21.

Reflections on 21 May - indigenous holocaust. Squalor in conditions for, and white attitudes of, Tasmanian Indigenous survivors.

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May 20.

Reflections on 20 May - Disproportionate settler retaliation. Unpaid Aboriginal labour and worse - massacres.

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May 19.

Reflections on 19 May - ‘...the original owners of the soil,’ and The ‘inhuman’ abduction of Indigenous personnel.

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May 18.

Reflections on 18 May - Revenging Reprisals: The cost in human lives of retributive raids.

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May 17.

Reflections on 17 May - Aboriginal access to land: Early mentions of ‘land rights’, reserves and extermination.

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May 16.

Reflections on 16 May - Instances of ‘Dispersals’. The euphemism of murderous ‘dispersal’.

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May 15.

Reflections on 15 May - The utmost secrecy: Function of the Native Mounted Police of Queensland.

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May 14.

Reflections on 14 May - In the wake of ‘explorers’. An explorer’s journey in his perceptions.

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May 13.

Reflections on 13 May - Elliston killings at Waterloo Bay in South Australia in 1848.

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May 12.

Reflections on 12 May - Humanitarian concern: A humanitarian’s reading of the situation.

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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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