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The local grass trees / Xanthorrhoea / black boys have sent up their flowering spike and the bees and birds are feeding on them.

It's this spear-like flowering stalk that had them for more than a century called "black boys".

A dismissive, belittling term.

But the term hid the terror of the early white colonists / invaders.

Perhaps near #Perth, Western Australia, the only frequently used-by-whites word from the local Aborigines was gidgie. Which means spear. We snorkelled with a gidgie.