Lilian Mae BallNov 23, 2022

I still get shocked surprise when I tell people that H G Wells wrote War of the Worlds after learning about the genocide inflicted by British colonists on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. It's right there in the foreword of the book.

#HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds #Indigenous #FirstNations #Aboriginal #lutruwita

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@maegrenofwithy

It's these kinds of facts that make me balk at rhetoric used for example during Hunt's budget speech declaring the British have always been a force of good in the world (paraphrasing). Surely they learn history at private schools?

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@WhiteSunday This is why the good citizens of Bristol threw the statue of slaver Colston into the Docks