An #Aboriginal #Tasmanian hunting party came near a settlement as #RisdonCove on #ThisDayInHistory in 1804, and despite showing no threat, not even carrying spears, the #British soldiers opened fire with grapeshot cannon (anti-personnel fire), killing a large (uncounted) number.

RaiNews: Australia: incriminato 47enne per aver ucciso una bambina aborigena di 5 anni

Scoperto il corpo e risaliti all'uomo la polizia lo arresta. Era stato picchiato fino a perdere i sensi dopo essersi arreso ai membri della comunità aborigena e poi portato in ospedale

Australia: 47-year-old indicted for killing a 5-year-old Aboriginal child

The body was discovered and the police arrested the man. He had been beaten until unconscious after surrendering to members of the Aboriginal community and then being taken to hospital.

#Australia #Aboriginal

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2026/05/australia-incriminato-uomo-per-aver-ucciso-bambina-aborigena-e8a9d943-2fd9-4b24-b28e-727af465b877.html

Australia: incriminato 47enne per aver ucciso una bambina aborigena di 5 anni

Scoperto il corpo e risaliti all'uomo la polizia lo arresta. Era stato picchiato fino a perdere i sensi dopo essersi arreso ai membri della comunità aborigena e poi portato in ospedale

RaiNews

Dear Friends from #OZ and over the #Rainbow,

After the heartbreaking news of 'the land down under' you can read about the release of #EasyOS 7.3
https://bkhome.org/news/

I had to modify. Too Pink. The possums are by an #Aboriginal woman artist. Still too pink for my tastes. So created my own temp desktop for now.

EDIT: 1. Not possums, 'Eastern Native Cat' or Quoll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_quoll
2. https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=169131#p169131

04:00 AM in #Blighty and so time for nutrition

Have a great day everyone. Be Pink if you wish. Be #free. Offend fascists who are an #offence against all good people.

  

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Angus Taylor says the Welcome to Country is "overused".

You heard it, guys. We need to stop welcoming colonisers, and just tell them to fuck right off.

#AusPol #Australia #anzacday #WelcomeToCountry #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

In case anyone was under any illusions about the intentions of the 'hate speech' laws passed by federal and state governments in recent months, consider the official governmental and media responses to the campaign of hateful racist booing of Aboriginal elders at ANZAC Day ceremonies around the continent today.

In Gadigal/Sydney, Naarm/Melbourne, Tarndanya/Adelaide and Boorloo/Perth, organised groups of racist hecklers jeered and booed as Aboriginal elders (many of them also ADF veterans) gave a Welcome to Country or Acknowledgement of Country. The campaign was organised by some of the same far-right white supremacists behind the recent 'March for (White) Australia' rallies.

In the flurry of media reporting and comments from politicians about how disgraceful the booing was, or saying how booing "misses the point", I have not managed to find a single article mentioning the obvious application of the new draconian hate speech laws to this very situation. Nor did I see a single call for prosecution from a politician. (Nor calls for politicians who have encouraged such hate to resign.)

The double standard has always been obvious. But at times like this, it is utterly glaring.

#ANZAC2026 #ANZAC #booing #Aboriginal #Indigenous
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Eli Weasel: American Hero or American Fool?

Eli and four friends built a local TDG (an alternative democracy) on the Tankosin Indian Reservation.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=18&id=270

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#nativeamerican #nativeamericans
#firstnation #indigenous #aboriginal

B.C. Court of Appeal overturns B.C. Supreme Court ruling on Nootka Island title
The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off western Vancouver Island.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nootka-island-title-nuchatlaht-court-of-appeal-bc-9.7152337?cmp=rss

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#Canada would do "The Great Scoop"(50s-80s), when #Canadian officials would break into #Aboriginal homes and kidnap their #children to be sent away to residential schools. These schools would cut their hair, disallow their #native #language, teach only #western #history. Stories of physical mental and sexual #abuse of these children were rampant, on top of being separated from their families."

#russia did the same during stalin's campaign "fighting illiteracy" (likbez, read genocide)
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Today, I saw a really powerful short film by Aboriginal filmmaker Vernon Ah Kee titled "Code Black/Riot". The film features firsthand accounts from Aboriginal children about their experiences in the youth prison system. They discussed how they were locked away in unlit cells for, in some cases, over a week at a time due to short staffing, and how they are subject to brutal violence by prison guards.

Here's a description from The Guardian:

"Among the biennale’s most powerful works is a collaborative project by Kurdish Iranian journalist and author Behrouz Boochani, Iranian Australian artist Hoda Afshar and Kuku Yalandji/Waanji/Yidinji/Gugu Yimithirr artist Vernon Ah Kee, focusing on the experiences of Indigenous youth in detention. At Campbelltown Arts Centre, a darkened gallery space is devoted to the four-channel video installation Code Black/Riot, featuring the testimonials of former staff members and child inmates of a facility in north Queensland."

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-interactive/2026/mar/13/sydney-biennale-2026-highlights-politics-nuance-beauty

Alongside it is a short film by Kurdish filmmaker Behrouz Boochani, himself a survivor of seven years of detention at the Manus Island immigration detention centre, in which former detainees share their experiences of life in detention.

Both are currently on show for free at the Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of the Biennale.

I really strongly recommend anyone in or around Sydney come down to hear these accounts. They will change how you see the country.

(And yes, I know there's the ick factor around Campbelltown and it's far away from everywhere. Hearing these accounts is 1000% worth the trip.)

Details here: https://www.campbelltownartscentre.com.au/Whats-On/Exhibitions/25th-Biennale-of-Sydney-Rememory/25th-Biennale-of-Sydney-Rememory

#art #FirstNations #Aboriginal #Auspol #Campbelltown #auspol #nsw #Australia