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[sublimeobservationarcade]

Important Shit They Didn’t Teach Me At School

Education is, as we all know, a vital component in our lives. They do not call them our formative years for nothing. Yet, there are many things, those in charge of teaching, do not include in our learnings. The state or a particular religious organisation are most usually involved in defining the taught curriculum. Somehow, I find, there is always important shit they didn’t teach me at school. Stuff that they left out for reasons unbeknown to me but of which I am now willing to speculate upon. I have extended my research beyond just my own school days to include the experiences of others from different eras.

My School Education About Aboriginal Australia

In Australia, we are currently about to vote in a referendum about changing the Constitution to recognise First Nations people and to give them a voice to parliament in an advisory role. This has proven to be contentious with those unwilling to grant such recognition calling it divisive. These lively debates in the media have caused me to ponder upon my own education about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. I remember some pretty general historical stuff delivered from the colonising European’s perspective. Although, we had stopped calling them ‘savages’ by this time in the 1970’s the view was fairly bleak. Aborigines were painted as the race time forgot and their future, outside of assimilation, seemed questionable.

They Didn’t Teach Me About Genocide & Massacres In Australia

I did not learn at school that many native groups were massacred by both settlers and a native frontier police force. I did not learn that mass poisonings were pretty common, where settlers would add arsenic or strychnine to flour given to Aboriginal groups on their land or a water hole would be poisoned. The local Indigenous children, women, and men would die in agony from these crimes against humanity. Indeed, there was a complete absence of such truth telling in my secondary education at school. I canvassed my daughter on this same topic, as she grew up in Queensland where this behaviour by settlers was more prevalent in 19C Australia. Her secondary schooling was done by a Christian College on the Sunshine Coast in 2017-2021. My daughter has no recollection of such shocking historical facts being imparted to her in Australian history classes. Indeed, Aborigines played little part in this Christian based curriculum at all, according to her very recent recall on the matter. Teaching & Whitewashing In Australia I spoke with several acquaintances and friends from different age groups, some older and some younger, about these matters. I asked them to spend some time reviewing these things and to get back to me when convenient. None of them could recollect being taught about these heinous crimes being committed. Yes, references to massacres by gunfire were sketchily mentioned by a few teachers but these were usually pretty thin on details given. Whitewashing our colonial past would not be a too strong categorisation of this policy enacted by our education departments and those of the independent schools. The upshot is that Australians do not know the true extent of what happened to First Nations people during colonisation in the 18C, 19C, and even into the early 20C.

Killing For Country: A White Agenda David Marr, the respected journalist and writer, has recently published Killing For Country. This is an account of his forebears, who were involved in the Native Frontier Police, an official force tasked with killing native blacks. Marr estimates that they may have conservatively killed some 40, 000 First Nations people. “David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result – a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world – of land seized, fortunes made and lost, and the violence let loose as squatters and their allies fought for possession of the country – a war still unresolved in today's Australia. "This book is more than a personal reckoning with Marr's forebears and their crimes. It is an account of an Australian war fought here in our own country, with names, dates, crimes, body counts and the ghastly, remorseless views of the 'settlers'. Thank you, David."—Marcia Langton” - (https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/killing-country)

What you get in modern Australia is a populace largely unaware of the true extent of the genocide that went on to establish a white Australia in a land that had been Aboriginal for around 70, 000 years. This is a direct result of the important shit they didn’t teach me at school. It spurs one to ponder what else was missing from my state run education? Australia, through its less than honest account of its colonial past, has sought to minimise and normalise its treatment of First Nations people. Former PM, John Howard, would not say sorry, as a strategic position in defence of how Australian governments dealt with their Indigenous population. “It all happened a long time ago,” is the common refrain from those unwilling to acknowledge the sins of the past. Well, actually it was not all that long ago in the time frame of history, more generally. Modern Australia is a very young country. Killings were still happening around a hundred years ago. Aboriginal deaths in custody are still occurring at an alarming rate today. The genocide continues in some form or another. “The frontier wars were a series of violent conflicts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While conflicts and skirmishes continued between European land holders and Traditional Owners, the military instrument of the Queensland Government was the Native Police. The Native Police was a body of Aboriginal troopers that operated under the command of white officers on the Queensland frontier from 1849 to the 1920s. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men were often forcefully recruited from communities—already diminished due to colonisation—that were normally a great distance from the region in which they were to work. They were offered low pay, along with rations, firearms, a uniform and a horse. Many deserted.” - (https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/archives/collection/war/frontier-wars) You cannot mass murder a bunch of people and just move on. There are ramifications and consequences of such appalling behaviour long felt. Truth telling is the next stage in the Uluru Statement from the Heart process. If you do not know the real history of your country and community – you do not know yourself.

Was White Australia Born Out Of Biological Warfare? There is credible speculation that the huge volume of mass Aboriginal deaths via disease around Port Jackson in the early years of British colonisation was due to small pox infection and was no accident. The first fleet were carrying vials of small pox in their cargo, according to the journals of Captain Watkin Tench. Plus, this form of biological warfare had been used on American Indians by the British. There were marines aboard who had been involved in those actions. The fleet were heavily outnumbered by the natives, running low on ammunition, and getting desperate for provisions to arrive. The military were, also, unhappy with the overly humanitarian leadership of Governor Arthur Philip in relation to dealing with the natives. “In the 18th century, the use of smallpox by British forces was not unprecedented.  This tactic was promoted by Major Robert Donkin and used by General Jeffrey Amherst in 1763, when smallpox-laden blankets and a handkerchief were distributed to Native Americans from Fort Pitt near the Great Lakes.  An outbreak of smallpox in Sydney in 1789 killed thousands of Aborigines and weakened resistance to white settlement. Chris Warren argues that the pandemic was no accident, but rather a deliberate act of biological warfare against Australia’s first inhabitants. In April 1789, a sudden, unusual, epidemic of smallpox was reported amongst the Port Jackson Aboriginal tribes who were actively resisting settlers from the First Fleet.  This outbreak may have killed over 90 per cent of nearby native families and maybe three quarters or half of those between the Hawkesbury River and Port Hacking.  It also killed an unknown number at Jervis Bay and west of the Blue Mountains.” - (https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ockhamsrazor/was-sydneys-smallpox-outbreak-an-act-of-biological-warfare/5395050)

The denial of these terrible truths about the birth of white Australia is apparent in the loud No Vote campaign. The awful Sky News Australia, with its tabloid style opinion based journalism (if you can call it journalism), bleats its badly informed and racist message across the airwaves. The Murdoch media empire makes its money from exploiting the likes and dislikes of the dominant white cohort. It appeals to their fears by dog whistling up bogus issues like Aboriginals taking their homes and money. Downward envy is their house speciality. This appalling family has been at the epicentre of the Australian media landscape for decades. The descendants of European invaders and in some cases murderers are thin skinned and sensitive to any perceived slights upon their family name or character. Saying sorry is a bridge too far for many of these folk. Modern Australia Must Embrace Truth Telling To Know Itself Modern Australia wants its children and citizens to refer to a particular interpretation of our history. It does not want the populace to consider the brutal realities of its colonial past. Indeed, for much of the brief history of white Australia the thinking was that Aborigines would die out and be assimilated into the larger pool of a national identity. Unfortunately for the social planners and their political masters this has not happened. Stubbornly, First Nations identities have stuck around despite the institutional racism over centuries. Indeed, generations of Indigenous Australians are taking great heart in their particular identities. Now, they want Constitutional recognition and a voice to parliament advising on those issues directly affecting them. The No Vote campaign is running messages of assimilation with bumper stickers saying, “One Voice, One Mob, One Nation.” This is a denial of Aboriginal culture and a call for Australian homogeneity. This is a campaign based on ignorance from a white population which has been cosseted and protected from the truth. If anything solid has come out of this referendum, whatever the result, it has been a refocusing on First Nations people in Australia. Perhaps, learning about what really occurred during the invasion and colonisation of this land. Maybe, deepening the understanding of the situation now and then. Honest relationships are never built on brushing over the past. Truth telling and treaty are coming.

Returning to the theme of this article, the important shit they didn’t teach me at school, a society is controlled by what they know and don’t know. This is why education is so important and why we had the history wars back in the 1990’s. The denial of the dark past is just as important as the abuse and injustice that goes on today. It forms of a framework for current reality. “If you don’t know, vote No.” This sums it up because, most of us don’t know and that has been by design. Yes, I hate to say that it is a conspiracy, because there are so many misguided conspiracists out there in the biosphere, but the manipulation of history is always so. Those in power make every effort to control the version of history promulgated within a nation for very good reasons. Culture is moulded out of those voices emerging from history, which are enhanced and amplified according to the wishes of those in power today. The ANZAC myth is the loudest one playing in modern Australia. This heroic story of gallant defeat has become the foundational myth defining our character. White Australia marching to the rescue of the mother country a long way from home. ANZAC day, since John Howard’s time has been amped up unceasingly to become a state religious festival. The nation unifies around this narrative of courage under fire. Murdering Aborigines fades into an uncertain misty past in comparison to the fine upstanding state sanctioned memories of the ANZACS.

Vote Yes in the referendum on 14th October 2023 for a better, braver future for Australia. Compassion makes for bigger hearts and better human beings. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom. ©WordsForWeb Read the full article

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[usnewsper-business]

Aboriginal Australians to have a 'Voice to Parliament' in constitutional recognition #aboriginalAustralians #communityconsultation #constitutionalrecognition #indigenousAustralians #voicetoparliament

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[tanyacole]

Ive has many people coming through for @margaretriverregionopenstudios asking where this beautiful woman can be seen. *** The Original Painting of this strong, soulful, proud, beautiful Indigenous Australian woman is available. ** She is currently hanging at @yallingupgalleries ❤️ ‘Spirit Guided’ Original Oil on Canvas 61cm x 76cm ©️2021 Tanya Cole ‘Spirit Guided’ is a portrait of a young Indigenous woman. Trent White Photography captured her with an expression which in turn captured my muse & my heart. A very strong powerful portrayal of a young woman approaching womanhood, connected to her culture with pride and knowing. She has a very natural way about her and you can see her soul/nature embodied in her face...one feels quite moved by her. She really is beautiful. I hope that I captured all of this in the rendering of the oil painting. The red tailed black cockatoo feathers provide a striking contrast as well as symbolic conveyance of spirit connection between Indigenous people and nature. Red tailed black cockatoo feathers represent powerful spiritual symbols in the Dreaming.’ ************************ * Huge thanks to the talented @trentwhite_photo for his kind permission to reference his beautiful photo/capture for this painting 🙏 . . . #spiritguided #originaloiloncanvas #originaloilpainting #blackcockatoofeathers #trentwhitephotography #art #artwork #portrait #painting #firstnationaustralians #firstnationpeople #indigenousaustralians #artistsoninstagram #collectors #collectorsofart #artcollectors #paintinginvestment #yallingupgalleries #ig_art #mrros #trentwhite_photo #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom https://www.instagram.com/p/CitWFS4PHRi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[redfashionmarketing]

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[marissasaroca]

SORRY DAY • repost and thank you to @blakbusiness who spend so much time and energy educating. See their original post for more information and resources on the Stolen Generations. ❤️💛🖤 ・・・ Today is Sorry Day - we remember the Stolen Generations; those who came home and those who didn't. We remember the trauma and the hurt as well as the resilience and strength. And we ask, will you remember our story too? #AboriginalAustralia #FirstNations #Aboriginal #IndigenousAustralia #Indigenous #FirstNationsAustralia #IndigenousAustralian #Koori #Murri #Palawa #Noongar #Yolngu #Blakbusiness #IndigenousCommunity #TorresStraitIslander #AboriginalPeoples #SorryDay #StolenGeneration #Genocide https://www.instagram.com/p/CAop_pwAX3l/?igshid=143nsifp2mc2b

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[pincaustralia]

Collectivised from @dot.hep and @getup_australia #enddeathsincustody #alwayswasalwayswillbe #BLM #blacklivesmatter #civilrights #convictcops #prosecutepolice #firstnationspeople #indigenousaustralians #nojusticenopeace https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_95QujUVn/?igshid=6o1attzxvmih

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[belindaillustrates]

This week is NAIDOC week, a week to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. "Voice, Treaty, Truth" is this year's theme. Here's my painting "Hearing the Message" for the Ancient Spirit Oracle card deck I am currently working on. We need to remember to listen and act. I would like to see more consultation with Indigenous Australians from my Government. A lot has been achieved but there is still a long way to go. 🖤💛❤ #NAIDOC #proudtobeaustralian #naidocweek2019 #voicetreatytruth #Australianartist #IndigenousAustralians #Aboriginal (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzuFyWpgZNx/?igshid=53kfea79jfp

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[sublimeobservationarcade]

Years Of Injustice and Neglect Of Indigenous Australians Must Be Recognised

The first thing to say is that there is no such thing as the black race. Likewise, there is no such thing as the white race. These modern misappropriations of pseudo-science for cultural purposes are all too common. Shared identity is a fairly amorphous thing, which is used and discarded depending upon the situation. Right now in Australia, we have a referendum coming up to vote on  a Voice to Parliament for Indigenous Australians.  I have heard that there are between 400 and 600 different First Nations represented in Australia. Obviously, I am no expert on this, but I do see the need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be accorded the respect and recognition of a voice via the Constitution. Years of injustice and neglect of Indigenous Australians must be recognised.

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Time For A Positive Change Via The Voice In Australia For First Nations

If the last couple of hundred years are anything to go by, then, it is time for a change. A change from white skinned sons and daughters of British colonials telling the progeny of the original inhabitants what to do and what is best for them. Let us acknowledge the mistakes of our past and provide a seat at the table for those with direct and real experience of what it is like to be Indigenous Australians. https://youtu.be/dF7cwrFWiR8 I am somewhat surprised at the opposition to the creation of a constitutional advisory body on matters pertaining to First Nations Australians. I wonder why these, largely, conservative politicians and their backroom buddies are so fearful of something of this nature. Some are saying that they want all Australians to be equal and no special recognition to be given to Indigenous Australians. Unfortunately, the reality is that we are not all equal, as things currently stand. Some of us come from privileged wealthy families and this kind of wealth is not taxed in Australia. There is no inheritance tax and capital gains tax on the family home or mansion if you live in it for 12 months or more.

The True Story Injustice & Neglect of Indigenous Australians

Rich Australians can pass on their wealth and advantage to their children, whilst poor people must continue to pay income tax and pass on their poverty to their offspring. First Nations Australians share of the nation’s wealth is not telling us a story of all Australians being equal. Injustice and neglect of Indigenous Australians has been the track record of the old way of doing things. “The proportion of Indigenous adults with household income in the lowest quintile was higher in more remote areas, ranging from 26% in Major cities to 69% in Very remote areas, with a national average of 35%. The proportion of Indigenous adults with household income in the highest quintile ranged from 13% in Major cities to 3.0% in Very remote areas, with a national average of 9.9%. In 2018–19, based on the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey, 40% (153,700) of Indigenous adults were living in households that had experienced days without the money for basic living expenses, such as for food, clothing and bills, in the previous 12 months. Additionally, 54% (164,170) of Indigenous Australians were living in households that reported they would not be able to raise $2,000 within a week for an emergency (an indicator of financial stress). This was more likely for households in remote areas (75%) than for those in non-remote areas (49%) “ - (https://www.indigenoushpf.gov.au/measures/2-08-income)

Rich & Privileged People Telling Us We Are All Equal In Australia A favourite conservative narrative is that we all have an equal opportunity in this country to achieve greatness and a good living. What they don’t ever emphasise is the fact that they went to a wealthy private school, came from a wealthy family, and hob knobbed in the right circles of power and influence. People like Tony Abbott and John Anderson had the opportunities to really make a difference to the lives of Indigenous Australians whilst they were in government, but did not do so. Abbott stripped half a billion dollars from programs designed to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders when he was Prime Minister. Conservative politicians played politics rather than make improving the lives of Indigenous Australians a priority. Peter Dutton and his mob are continuing to do the same right now. In many instances, the money spent on programs for First Nations people benefitted white bureaucrats. Reviews commissioned into these things saw hundreds of millions of dollars go to firms like PwC and the consultancy sector. Aboriginal Affairs, as it used to be called has been a shell game profiting a whole lot of white folk gathered around the edges over many generations. Of the billions spent on ‘Closing the Gap’ how much actually made its way into the hands and lives of Indigenous Australians? And how much was siphoned off into the pockets of white businesses, bureaucrats, and consultants? I would like to see a report on that.

Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com The Coalition Government & Consultants The Coalition governments of Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison spent tens of billions on consultants in their decade in power. They gutted the public service of some 15, 000 jobs. Jobs for the boys and vast sums of money going to the private sector. Revolving doors have seen these influential and favoured people pick out the choice plums and feather their nest to the tune of millions. Meanwhile, regional Indigenous Australia has been a wasteland of neglect and disfunction. Lives have been destroyed via hopelessness and its cousins alcoholism, violence, and drug addiction. It is illustrative to compare the lives of these two disparate groups and what governments have done for them over the journey. Prime Ministers when they come to power always mention in their speeches that they are going to govern for all Australians – talk about empty words and cheap platitudes. It is time to say, fair’s fair, to give it back to pay our share: “The time has come to say fair's fair To pay the rent, to pay our share The time has come, a fact's a fact It belongs to them, let's give it back  How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning? How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning?  The time has come to say fair's fair To pay the rent now, to pay our share”           (Written by: Martin Rotsey, Peter Gifford, Robert Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett)  This song was written or came out around 1987, that is some 36 years ago. Ask yourself if you would like to see a voice for positive change gain real recognition in the halls of power here in Australia. Only a YES vote will make this possible in the coming referendum on the vote for Constitutional change to recognise a Voice to Parliament for Indigenous Australians. Injustice and neglect of Indigenous Australians must end! Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters; Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom.  ©HouseTherapy

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[sharifahtynnetta]

✋🏾We need to step out the mindset of limiting our understanding of blackness to Africa and the Caribbean! If we continue to do so the white man will continue to tailor and manipulate our history. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Australia is an evident example of the white man taking our land, raping and murdering our ancestors and presenting the new and 'approved' Australia as a white-centric haven. It took for when we were adults to know that black people even lived in Australia. We continue as adults to be so unaware so let this post mark the beginning of reclaiming what the Anglo-Australian stole.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ P.S: Cannot believe that the Egyptians and Aboriginal Australians were bredins ahhh! ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #aboringialaustralians #IndigenousAustralians #TorresStraitIslands #kemet #ancientegypt #thegympiepyramid #blackhistory #blackmindsmatter #dance #alkebulan #australia (at Arnhem Land) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGvG-frgeM0/?igshid=r1n9ror1gk2i

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[tanyacole]

After I shared this painting the other week, a lovely follower suggested I enter it in a local art prize which has the theme , 'Connected' ~ so I have! 🤞🙏😘 'Connected’ Original Acrylic on canvas 55cm x 62cm ©️ 2020 Tanya Cole ** Photo Reference credit ~ @outbackimpressionsphotography *** 🙏❤️🖤💛🎨🌏🌊🌑 #art #artwork #portrait #painting #outbackimpressionsphotography #indigenousaustralians #curators #artistsoninstagram #australianartist #westernaustralianartist #originalart #collectorsofart #artcollectors #aboriginalculture #paintinginvestment #galleries #interiordesigners #interiordecorators #ig_art #gallery #australiangalleries #contemporaryart #tanyacoleartsdotcom https://www.instagram.com/p/B82WxGGDxZ6/?igshid=j966is4mo7w7

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[redfashionmarketing]

Unity Store - we are taking the best Australian Made Products to China. We started Unity Store to focus on the best Indigenous Australian Brands - but there are so many great Australian Entrepreneurs we have introduced those products into our range - Unity. Fashion, Accessories, Skincare, Haircare, Food & Lifestyle. Unity Store - The Best of Australia. #unity #australia #indigenousaustralian #savage #aboriginalandtorresstraitislander #australian #australianmade #australianentrepreneurs #ethical #organic #wechat #wechatstore #thebestofaustralia #ethical #natural #bespoke @sarahconnersaccessories @julie_okely @juddarnje @carbonscrub @wakarla @kirrikinaustralia @charlesworth_nuts @kakadu_tiny_tots @indigenous_business_australia @austradeofficial @auspost (at Sydney, Australia)

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[womenshistoryau]

Faith Thomas born in 1933 was a remarkable Australian who became the first Aboriginal woman to play cricket for Australia. She was also the first Aboriginal woman to represent Australia on an international level, in any sport. Her achievements were not limited to Australian sport, however, as she was also one of Australia's first indigenous nurses, and would later go on to become the first Aboriginal woman to run a hospital. For her breaking of stereotypes, Thomas was appointed Member of the Order of Australia. • Source information: Vouge Australia • Image Source: Cricket Australia • #faiththomas #australianwomen #indigenousaustralian #indigenousaustralia #australianhistory #modernhistory #cricketaustralia

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[lannyedey]

Every now and then Mother Nature presents powerfull Earth Elements. Fire and Water. I captured this image to show and teach my Jarjums (young children) how important these elements are and how they compliment each other. In my culture I was taught by my Elders that the storms are the Male elements, they are powerful and strong. But what comes from storms is rain/water, the female element, its nurturing, calming and it is vital for survival. #syrp #nikonaustralia #stormchaser #filmmaker #panasonic #rodemic #digitaldreamtime #landscapephotography #documentaryfilmmaker #indigenousfilmmaker #brisbanephotographer #chasingdreams #summerstorms #brisbanebayside #stormboy #landscapefilming #indigenousaustralian #cameraproau (at Manly, Queensland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsVKtjMn91q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nqtf2z89xiyx

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[troublemagazine]

We have posted an excerpt from our Deep Trouble podcast interview with Uncle Rick Nelson @youtube - https://youtu.be/_kZqAdW_6XU He tells of a feud between Mount Franklin, near Daylesford, and Mount Tarrengower in Maldon, central Victoria. Image: Eugene von Gerard, North View from Daylesford, 1864, oil on canvas, 65 x 126 cm. You can listen to the full podcast here - http://www.troublemag.com/deep-trouble-4/ Or find us @itunes @spotify @stitcherpodcasts - wherever you like to listen #DjaDjaWurrung #aboriginal #indigenous #elder #colonialism #history #central Victoria #Goldfields #Daylesford #Maldon #Mount Tarrengower #Mount Franklin #Kulin #firstnations #culture #reconciliation #indigenousAustralian #Australia #naidoc #ancestors #deadlyfulla #AustraliahasaBLACKhistory #EugenevonGuerard https://www.instagram.com/p/BqGF1kDlPTJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xa1gpzsgsxrq

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[worldnewsinpictures]

A young Indigenous Australian woman says she was the subject of police brutality and racial profiling during a dramatic arrest in Sydney.... Got an opinion about this? See what others are saying.... See MORE -> https://worldnewsinpictures.com/young-indigenous-australian-woman-says #Indigenous #IndigenousAustralian #IndigenousAustralianSydney #SeeSee #SeeSeeMORE #Australian