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Politicians Must Face The Truth: Indigenous Australia Doesn’t Accept Symbolic Recognition

Paul Daley, The Guardian UK, 21 July 2017


White leaders have always sought to simplify Indigenous responses to top-down propositions. Perhaps that’s why they don’t understand the Referendum Council’s recommendations for a voice in parliament





Co-Chair of the Indigenous Referendum Council, Pat Anderson. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP


There are many Indigenous Australians, multiple nations whose immediate country is as diverse as the tongues in which they speak.
Some politicians don’t understand that – never really have. Since colonial days they wanted to deal with a “chief” – or however else they might term a leader – who might strike a deal with them supposedly on behalf of all others. You know, vast tracts of land and water in exchange for axes, flour and tobacco?



Such deals – like John Batman’s purported “treaty” – weren’t worth the breath wasted on them.

White leaders – politicians, cops, soldiers, judges – have long sought to simplify Indigenous responses to top-down propositions – the answers to which were critical, given the white-black power imbalance – to Indigenous physical and cultural survival.

I haven’t got room here to examine how that dynamic has played out in, for example, discussions around land rights and native title rulings, truth telling about the killings of many tens of thousands of Aboriginal people on the colonial frontier, and deaths in custody and stolen children, and in negotiations over cultural theft and ethical treatment by the state of Indigenous ancestral remains (the government will not commit to a dignified national keeping place for remains that are currently warehoused in cultural institutions).

But at the end of a week when the politicians’ desire for a simple yes/no response on so-called “constitutional recognition” from some Indigenous representatives was dealt what is probably a fatal blow, it’s worth considering where all this business about a positive nod to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution began.

Rewind nearly a decade to October 2007, when Australia’s second longest serving prime minister, John Howard – not, to understate, a great friend of First Nations people – was on the ropes after nearly 11 years as PM. The great pretender of Liberal politics, Peter Costello, couldn’t summons the fortitude to challenge him and so profound were the questions about Howard’s atrophy and absence of plan or foresight that Kevin Rudd seemed to provide the answer.

But Howard suddenly conjured something that was accepted, without too much immediate consideration, as a bit of heartfelt political vision when, on a most generous retrospective assessment, it was heavily bifocal.

Here’s how the man who embraced and perpetuated the term “black armband” history in relation to acknowledging frontier violence, suddenly saw it all on the eve of the 2007 election abyss:


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I sense that the Australian people want to move ... towards a new settlement of this issue, and I share that desire, which is why I’m here tonight.

I announce that if I am re-elected, I will put to the Australian people within 18 months a referendum to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in our constitution, their history as the first inhabitants of our country, their unique heritage of language and culture, and their special, though not separate, place within a reconciled indivisible nation.

My goal is to see a new statement of reconciliation incorporated into the preamble of the Australian constitution. If elected, I would commit immediately to working in consultation with Indigenous leaders and others on this task.

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A few Indigenous leaders gave their cautious, qualified support, while from the regions to the cities Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people, only about half of whom vote, asked why the hell they’d want to be recognised in the founding document of the settler state anyway? That sentiment has not changed.

Still the proposition, so undefined it gathered questions like moss as it rolled through successive parliaments and outlasted another four prime ministerships, became increasingly vexing. The Recognise organisation – publicly bankrolled for millions of dollars to promote only one side of the nebulous proposition – managed to outrage both the shock-jocks of Jurassic Park who wanted no such blackening of the constitution and many, many Aboriginal Australias where people wondered how recognition could possibly take priority over fixing their developing world living conditions and the social and economic inequities that have characterised their lives since invasion.

Many media voices, having failed to engage with the importance of frontier history to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (many of whom want a public process of truth telling as a national priority) lazily viewed Recognise through a black (yes)/white (no) paradigm (witness the pathetic, reductive TV treatment featuring Andrew Bolt and Linda Burney) when in fact the intra-Indigenous debate and consideration was always so much more nuanced, respectful and, yes, complex.


Are we there yet?

I think so. The simple, largely symbolic recognition proposal favoured by the political class will probably die with Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership or what remains thereof, after the Referendum Council this week called only for an Indigenous voice to parliament to be constitutionally enshrined.

The council’s recommendation was, ironically perhaps, the end result of a broad government-designed consultation that was conceived to streamline the desired outcome – yes or no to recognition and, if yes, well what should the amendment be? Instead the council consulted widely enough to demonstrate there could never be significant Indigenous support, let alone consensus, at the grass roots level for Recognise amid so many more priority questions.

Turnbull’s response was most telling.

It was, he said, “very short on detail but a very big idea”.

Short on detail, that is, like the decade-old recognition proposal. Yet still not quite simple enough.

All of which made me smile. And left me wondering if some of those Indigenous Australians hadn’t just addressed the white fella boss men in the way in which that they’d spoken down to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since 1788.
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The Killing Times The Massacres of Aboriginal People Australia Must Confront

Shootings, poisonings and children driven off cliffs – this is a record of state-sanctioned slaughter


The Guardian Australia, 6 MAR 2019.




The truth of Australia’s history has long been hiding in plain sight.


For hundreds of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have spoken about the murders of Indigenous tribes that occurred across the nation

The stories of “the killing times” are the ones we have heard in secret, or told in hushed tones. They are not the stories that appear in our history books yet they refuse to go away.

The colonial journalist and barrister Richard Windeyer called it “the whispering in the bottom of our hearts”. The anthropologist William Stanner described a national “cult of forgetfulness”. A 1927 royal commission lamented our “conspiracy of silence”.

But calls are growing for a national truth-telling process. Such wishes are expressed in the Uluru statement from the heart. Reconciliation Australia’s 2019 barometer of attitudes to Indigenous peoples found that 80% of people consider truth telling important. Almost 70% of Australians accept that Aboriginal people were subject to mass killings, incarceration and forced removal from land, and their movement was restricted.



A Massacre Map of Australia’s Frontier Wars




The yellow dots show the location of killings of Aboriginal people, and the blue dots show where non-Indigenous people were killed.
(Supplied: University of Newcastle) .


The Killing Times is a Guardian Australia special report that aims to assemble information necessary to begin truth telling – not just the grim tally of more than a century of frontier bloodshed, but its human cost – as told by descendants on all sides. This is the history we have all inherited.

Our map details massacres in every state and territory but the research is ongoing. It does not count all the sites of conflict, or clashes over land and resources, in which lives were lost in the colonisation of Australia.

The numbers we have drawn on are conservative estimates.

There are more massacre sites to be added – places where the true death toll may never be known – and many more we are still working to verify, particularly in Queensland, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and New South Wales.

We have found that there were at least 270 frontier massacres over 140 years, as part of a state-sanctioned and organised attempt to eradicate Aboriginal people.

Starting in 1794, mass killings were first carried out by British soldiers, then by police and settlers – often acting together – and later by native police, working under the command of white officers, in militia-style forces supported by colonial governments.

These tactics were employed, without formal repercussions, as late as 1926.

Using data from the colonial massacre map at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for 21st Century Humanities, and adopting its stringent research methods, Guardian Australia has surveyed the rest of the country.

We found that:

Government forces were actively engaged in frontier massacres until at least the late 1920s.

These attacks became more lethal for Aboriginal people over time, not less. The average number of deaths of Aboriginal people in each conflict increased, but from the early 1900s casualties among the settlers ended entirely – with the exception of one death in 1928.

The most common motive for a massacre was reprisal for the killing of settler civilians but at least 51 massacres were in reprisal for the killing or theft of livestock or property.

Of the attacks on the map, only once were colonial perpetrators found guilty and punished – in the aftermath of the Myall Creek killings in 1838.

In NSW and Tasmania between 1794 and 1833, most of the 56 recorded attacks were carried out on foot by detachments of soldiers from British regiments, and an average of 15 people were killed in each one. The weapon most often used was the “Brown Bess” musket, which was issued to British forces in the Napoleonic wars.

In NSW and Victoria between 1834 and 1859, horses and carbine rifles were used in at least 116 frontier massacres of Aboriginal people in mostly daytime attacks, with an average of 27 people killed in each attack.

From the late 1840s, massacres were carried out as daylight attacks by native police, sometimes in joint operations with settlers. They most often used double-barrelled shotguns, rifles and carbines.

Preliminary data from Queensland shows that between 1859 and 1915 an average of 34 people were killed in each attack.

There are at least nine known cases of deliberate poisoning of flour given to Aboriginal people.

There were also efforts to cover up the atrocities.


In 1927 a royal commission into the Forrest River massacre in Western Australia concluded that a police party had killed at least 11 people then burned their bodies in makeshift ovens. In his report the commissioner, GT Wood, said a “conspiracy of silence” in the entire Kimberley district had thwarted attempts to find out what really happened.

These massacres are challenging to read about. It can be even more challenging to discover a personal or family connection to them. Nevertheless, many Australians have come forward to share their stories, some for the first time.

Sandy Hamilton is descended from a soldier in the 46th Regiment which, on orders of the NSW governor Lachlan Macquarie, killed at least 14 Aboriginal people at Appin in 1816.

“We need to take ownership of our history,” Hamilton says. “We deserve to know the truth of how we came to be who we are.

“Then we can also make real choices about who we want to be as a society, as Australians.”

Liza Dale-Hallett is a great-niece of George Murray, a police constable who led the killings at Coniston in 1920, in which at least 50 Aboriginal men, women and children died. Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye people say up to 170 were slaughtered.

“It happened all over Australia and this is a part of our history,” Dale-Hallett says. “I’ve got a direct connection to it – but that doesn’t make it my history and not yours.

“Part of the reason they are continuing to cause harm is they haven’t been properly acknowledged. The simple act of listening is a really important first step in a more complex conversation that needs to be had about how did Australia settle itself.”

A descendant of Coniston survivors, Francis Jupurrurla Kelly, agrees.

“We want everyone to understand why so many of our innocent men, women and children were murdered in cold blood,” he says.

“Many kartiya [whitefellas] were too greedy for our land and didn’t see us as fully human.

In replicating the University of Newcastle’s centre’s data collection methods we have only recorded attacks in which six or more people were killed.

According to the centre’s Prof Lyndall Ryan, the massacre of six undefended Aboriginal people from a hearth group of 20 is known as a “fractal massacre”, so called because it leaves survivors vulnerable to further attack and far less able to hunt, care for children or carry out cultural obligations to country.

Research and verification of the evidence takes time and care. It involves locating primary sources such as letters, journals, newspaper articles, books, photographs and oral histories.

We have relied on the written record of the time but acknowledge that, for example, a settler’s journal is not necessarily a reliable or definitive account of what took place. There can be a tendency to understate the severity of the attacks, the toll they took and the actions of those present.

The written records don’t always indicate intention. Sometimes they do, in chilling detail, as described in this letter from a Gippsland squatter, Henry Meyrick, to his family in England in 1846:

The blacks are very quiet here now, poor wretches. No wild beast of the forest was ever hunted down with such unsparing perseverance as they are. Men, women and children are shot whenever they can be met with … I have protested against it at every station I have been in Gippsland, in the strongest language, but these things are kept very secret as the penalty would certainly be hanging.

We have categorised killings according to the alleged reasons for them as written in primary sources we have seen, but oral histories provide context. Aboriginal attacks on settlers often took place after previous unreported killings of smaller groups or individuals, or as the result of escalating tensions over land, water and resources. Settler reprisals were heavily disproportionate and grew worse over time.

The language in these sources is coded. “Dispersal” is a common euphemism. “Land clearing”, “expeditions” and “hunting parties” were undertaken to “teach the blacks a lesson”.

Learning about this history will come as a shock to some. But Australians trying to move past blame or guilt are coming forward now in greater numbers, and their voices are only growing louder.

“We have done a lot already to make sure nobody has an excuse to stay ignorant,” Francis Jupurrurla Kelly says. “It’s now time for governments and others to do their bit to tell the truth and help us move forward together.”
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There is much more to this then what is stated. This story is the TRUTH yes but it does not talk about what is currently happening today. The Government has said "Sorry" and the Aboriginal people as given greater financial help then anyone else in the country. On every Government related form where funding is there, there is the question asked "Are you Aboriginal / Torra Straight Islander" this is because they get more funding if the answer is YES. One only has to be 1/32th Aboriginal to be seen as Aboriginal decent. 1/1,1/2, 1/4, 1/16, 1/32 th that is five times removed. Most of the 1/32 look whiter then the English and look nothing like an Aboriginal. It is often this group of people who cause the most problems. The true Aboriginal is a very nice person and have a great connection with the land and their customs. The 1/32th group are just greedy white people who are just wanting the Government to hand over Millions of $$'s and huge tracks of Land and most seem to have feeling that they are owed something. If you are Aboriginal and you have a job you can go for Walk-Abouts and still not lose your job. So they can go missing from work for many days at a time and still get full pay and still have their job when they return. It is sad that the Aboriginal seems to have a bad reaction to alcohol, as this has become there Achilles heel. I feel that many whites feel that the Aboriginal gets more then what they (whites) do and this causes a lot of tension.

Personally I don't care what colour the skin is, it is whats inside that counts. I have both supported and rejected the Aboriginal people. I have worked in many places which are mainly "Black Areas" and I have seen both the good and the bad. Not only in "Blacks" but also "Whites" my own family is racist (anti-black), I am not though. But in saying that there are a lot of Aboriginal's that are also racist (anti-white).
So what is the answer. I don't really know. I feel that as Australians we all (Black and White) need to be on the same level and for as long as the Government is clearly seen as creating this divide (re: forms above) then its people will continue to enable this divide. I have been in a position where I was in a Mowing Group. There was 2 groups, one Black Group and one White Group. Well I said that it was wrong so I set about making some change, I encouraged the employment of Aboriginal's into the white group. This went well for about a year, then I had to leave for a while and I returned about a year later only to discover that I was now the only white person working in my old group. My two friends, both Aboriginal's, forced out the other white workers and replaced them with black worker. I got both my friends aside, one was an Elder and the other was the Foreman (took over my old job at my recommendation) and I said whats going on here. The reply was not a good one, they wanted to give employment to their own kind because they don't get treated equal anywhere else. I ended up have a huge argument with both of them and I called them racist (anti-white) and saying that they where no better then the whites that mistreated them. I left the job and got different work. Word got back to them that I was leaving QLD to go live in Vic and one of my "old" friends came and seen me. He said that he was sorry for what had happen and that he would try to change, he could see what I could see. Well after about two years I found out that nothing had changed.
It is a very hard problem to correct and I feel that the Government is NOT doing any good towards this divide. Also I would like to say that what happened 200yrs ago is NOT my doing and the Aboriginal people need to realise that, all of those people are now dead and buried. I also know that there are some Aboriginal people out there who feel that same as myself BUT we are just a few and cannot change the ways of a country.
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Oh Crap! Aboriginal Australians CANNOT Be Deported High Court Rules

High Court Rules Against
Government's Attempt to Deport Aboriginal Australians


Aboriginal Australians are NOT 'aliens' under the constitution and cannot be deported

The Guardian Australia, 10 FEB 2020





The high court has decided that Aboriginal Australians are not aliens for the purpose of the constitution, a major defeat for the deportation powers of Peter Dutton’s home affairs department and a significant development in the rights of Indigenous Australians.

In a four-to-three split decision on Tuesday the high court ruled that Aboriginal people with sufficient connection to traditional societies cannot be aliens, giving them a special status in Australian constitutional law likely to have ramifications far beyond existing native title law. The majority of the high court ruled that Brendan Thoms was not an alien and the commonwealth therefore did not have power to order his deportation.

The court was not able to decide if the second plaintiff, Daniel Love was an Aboriginal Australian, requiring a further hearing to establish the facts. The plaintiffs were born in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, each with one Aboriginal parent, and face deportation due to laws which allow the cancellation of visas on character grounds.

Lawyers for the two Indigenous men, backed up by the state of Victoria, argued the Australian government cannot deport Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders even if they do not hold Australian citizenship because the constitutional definition of “alien” cannot be set by the government of the day through citizenship law. Both were convicted of criminal offences and served time in prison.

At the conclusion of their sentences in 2018, both had their visas revoked and were taken to immigration detention in Brisbane where they were advised they would be deported. Love was to be deported to Papua New Guinea, and Thoms to New Zealand. Love was released in September 2018 shortly after the present court proceedings were filed. Thoms remains in immigration detention.

Justices Virginia Bell, Geoffrey Nettle, Michelle Gordon and James Edelman ruled that the tripartite test – established by the landmark Mabo native title cases – can be used to establish biological descent and recognition of indigeneity by a traditional group that puts Indigenous Australians beyond the reach of the aliens power in the constitution.

The chief justice, Susan Kiefel, and justices Stephen Gageler and Patrick Keane disagreed. Nettle was the swing vote who decided a further hearing would be required in Love’s case to determine his Aboriginality. The majority ordered the commonwealth to pay the plaintiffs’ costs.

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What kind of racist BS is this? How was this even a thing? Translation: state-sponsored racism. What a ****n charade. How much did it cost to work that out? And l don't mean the human cost of systemic racism. I mean how much money to get the high court out of bed in the morning to state the bleeding obvious.

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Judicially enforced racism. How could there have been a 4-3 split on this What the **** is wrong with people?!?! Good news in the end, but ... SERIOUSLY? Aboriginal

N.B. Brings to mind Hitler. & South Africa and the US/Canada's ill treatment of the original inhabitants of those countries. > Disgraceful...





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Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: 434 Have Died Since 1991, New Data Shows

In the wake of widespread protests in the United States after the killing of George Floyd by the police, people are now taking to the streets in Australia.


Their goal is to show solidarity with black communities in America, and highlight Australia’s problems with police violence and institutional racism.


The Guardian has updated its groundbreaking searchable database as a definitive record of deaths of Indigenous Australians in prison or police custody

The Guardian / Daily Mail UK, 6 JUN 2020


George Floyd's death has provoked worldwide shock, including in Australia. But the UK also has a shameful history of black deaths in custody - and some share eerie similarities to the U.S. tragedy

Australians have watched in horror as dozens of American cities go up in flames with thousands protesting the death of George Floyd.

Many expressed shock at how a white police officer could allegedly murder an unarmed black man by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes during an arrest.

But they have forgotten Australia's own record of Aboriginal deaths in custody, and others killed in police shootings.

At least 432 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission, which investigated 99 such deaths from 1980 to 1989.

Two who were shot dead in the past year led to police being charged with murder, both of whom pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial.

Aboriginals make up 28 per cent of Australia's prison inmates despite only being three per cent of the country's population.

Aboriginal activists draw direct parallels between Mr Floyd's death, and many others like him in the U.S., and the high rate of indigenous deaths in Australia.

'So many of our Aboriginal people dead in custody in Australia has came about by this exact kind of brutal procedure of the knee in the neck area causing breathing to cut off,' Perth community leader Mervyn Eades said.

TV Host Shelly Ware added: 'The past few days has also shone a light on the work Australia still has to do. Our back yard is certainly not clean.

'Aboriginal deaths in custody... is still happening. Justice has not been served for these people and their loved ones and family still suffer today.'


David Dungay




Mr Dungay's death in November 2015 was so similar to that of Mr Floyd that his nephew Paul Silva couldn't finish watching it.


'I had to stop the footage. It took me straight back to when I first saw the video of my uncle's death,' he said.

Like Mr Floyd, the 26-year-old's last moments were of him gasping 'I can't breathe', 12 times, as officers pressed his body into the ground until he died.

'If you're talking, you can breathe,' the officers told him, just as police told Mr Floyd.


Mr Dungay was eating a packet of biscuits in his cell in Long Bay jail and a nurse was concerned about his sugar levels as he was diabetic.

When he refused to stop eating them, five prison guards stormed his cell and dragged him to another one.

He was then held face down as a nurse injected a sedative, and video captured the scene as he lost consciousness and died.

NSW deputy coroner Derek Lee in November found 'it was neither necessary nor appropriate' for him to be moved and he 'did not pose a security risk'.

'From a medical point of view there was no evidence of any acute condition which would have warranted a cell transfer,' he said.

However, no disciplinary action was recommended against any of the guards as their conduct was 'not motivated by malicious intent' but a 'misunderstanding'.





At least five Immediate Action Team prison officers restraining Dungay before he is given an intramuscular injection





David Dungays cousin Lizzie Jarrett (left), mother Leetona Dungay and nephew Paul Silva outside court during the inquest into his death


Mr Dungay's family wants potential charges investigated against the guards and NSW Safework to launch its own investigation.

Safework rejected this request because Corrective Services admitted to 'organisational failures' and the inquest recommended improvements.

'If you take that use of force out, would David Dungay still be alive today? Yes, he would,' Mr Silva told the Guardian.


Julieka Dhu





Ms Dhu, 22, died in 2014 of septicaemia and pneumonia caused by a broken rib after being held for three days in the South Headland, WA, police station.


Shocking CCTV footage showed her limp body being dragged from her cell to a police van by two officers an hour before she was declared dead.

Ms Dhu was handcuffed, grabbed by her armpits and dragged backwards out of the cell where a second officer took hold of her ankles to carry her away while her 'eyes were popping out of her head'.

One of the officers first picks her up with one hand from the mattress she lay on before dropping her, sending her head slamming into the concrete floor.

An officer who came to help told the inquest she heard her colleague whisper 'you are a f**king junkie… you will f**king sit this out. We will take you to hospital but you are faking it' in Ms Dhu's ear.


Ms Dhu, 22, died in 2014 of septicaemia and pneumonia caused by a broken rib after being held for three days in the South Headland, WA, police station

She was the loaded into the back of the van and driven to South Headland Hospital, either dying in transit or soon after she arrived.

Police repeatedly referred to her as a 'junkie', assuming she was coming down from drugs and faking her pain, numbness and other symptoms for attention.

They even told doctors she was 'faking it' when really she was in cardiac arrest and near death as a result of a golf ball-sized lump of pus growing near her broken rib.

Coroner Ros Fogliani said police were 'unprofessional and inhumane' in their treatment of her, in the findings of a long-running inquest in December 2016.

The coroner made 11 recommendations in her report but did not call for any charges or disciplinary action against anyonyone involved.


Cameron Doomadgee


The November 19, 2004, death of Mr Doomadgee, 36, also known as Mulrunji, set off a riot on Palm Island, off the coast of Queensland.

He was walking along the street singing 1999 Baha Men song Who Let The Dogs Out when he stumbled upon the arrest of another Aboriginal man.

Mr Doomadgee swore at one of the officers for arresting a fellow Aboriginal, so the pair arrested him for public nuisance and took him to the station.

After he and the other prisoner were put in their cells, officers checked on them 15 minutes later, and then 42 minutes after that.

At the second check, Mr Doomadgee was discovered to be cold to the touch and as having no pulse. He was declared dead when paramedics arrived.




The November 19, 2004, death of David Doomadgee, 36, also known as Mulrunji, set off a riot on Palm Island, off the coast of Queensland





The local courthouse, police station, the police barracks, and the home of the arresting officer Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley were burned down in the riots


Mr Doomadgee died after he suffered four broken ribs, his liver was cleaved in two across his spine and his portal vein burst, causing massive blood loss.

When the post-mortem results were read out on November 26, a cause of death was not listed, instead a list of possibilities included Mr Doomadgee falling.

Refusal to release the findings started a riot of 400 islanders.

The local courthouse, police station, the police barracks, and the home of the arresting officer Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley were burned down.

About 80 police officers were flown on to Palm Island to quell the riot and arrest those responsible.

Heavily-armed officers in riot gear raided houses at dawn and rounded up numerous residents, 28 of whom were charged.

Police actions were found to be 'unnecessary, disproportionate' and them having 'acted in these ways because they were dealing with an Aboriginal community'.





Accused Palm Island riot ringleader Lex Wotton raises his arms outside the Townsville police station where he watched the crowd of 1,000 protestors march by in protest of Mr Dungay's death


One family was awarded a $235,000 in payout for assault, battery and false imprisonment, and a class action lawsuit by islanders settled for $30 million.

A coronial inquiry found Sergeant Hurley caused Mr Doomadgee's death by repeatedly punching him in the torso.

Sergeant Hurley was eventually charged with manslaughter but found not guilty at trial, and the coroner's results also overturned on appeal.

In a second inquest, Coroner Brian Hine found Sergeant Hurley punched Mr Doomadgee in the face and abused him while taking him into the station.

He further found Mr Doomadgee could have died as a result of a 'knee drop' by the 2.01m tall 115kg Hurley on the 1.81m tall 74kg prisoner, or him accidentally falling on him.

The Crime and Misconduct Commission recommended charges against seven officers for colluding to protect Hurley, but no one was charged.

Mr Doomadgee's family was given a $370,000 payout by the Queensland Government in 2011.


Joyce Clarke

Ms Clarke, 29, was allegedly armed with a knife when a constable, whose name is suppressed, shot her outside a Geraldton, WA, home on September 17 last year.

She had recently been released from jail for stealing a mobile phone, and her family called police after she started behaving erratically.

Ms Clarke had mental health issues and once set fire to her cell because she believed there were 'spirits' there.

Police saw her carrying a knife and drove alongside her while talking to her until backup arrived.





Joyce Clarke, 29, was allegedly armed with a knife when a constable, whose name is suppressed, shot her outside a Geraldton, WA, home on September 17 last year


Eight officers got out of their cars and approached her, before Ms Clarke allegedly lunged at a constable who fatally shot her in the stomach.

He was charged with murder and pleaded not guilty last week.
'They should have Tasered her... she was under mental health, so why [shoot her], why did he do that?' Ms Clarke's mother said. Ms Clarke's alleged murderer was the first WA Police officer charged over the death of an Aboriginal since five officers were acquitted of murdering John Pat in 1983.

The teenager, a month shy of his 17th birthday, was with a group of Aboriginal people who got into a bar brawl with five off-duty police officers in Roebourne.

During the melee, John was punched in the face and fell, hitting his head on the road.

Witnesses claimed one of the cops kicked then came over and him in the head before he was allegedly dragged to a waiting police van, kicked in the face, and thrown in 'like a dead kangaroo'.

Other witnesses alleged each Aboriginal arrested was viciously beaten as they were taken from the police van inside the station.

An hour later, John was found dead when police checked on him.
The officers were found to have acted in self-defence and acquitted, after which they were returned to duty with no punishment.





Redfern All Blacks player Eddie Murray was found hanged in his cell an hour after being arrested for being drunk and disorderly.


Initially believed to be a suicide, his body was re-examined and found his sternum was smashed just before death

Redfern All Blacks rugby league player Murray was about to tour New Zealand when he was arrested in 1981 in the NSW town of Wee Waa for being drunk and disorderly.

Murray, 21, was taken to the station and found hanged in his cell less than an hour later.

His death was originally ruled a suicide until his body was exhumed in 1997 and given a second post-mortem.

The examination revealed a smashed sternum that was missed the first time, which the forensic pathologist determined happened just before his death.

Murray's death has remained a mystery ever since.



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New Zealand Re: The Killing Times: Aboriginal Flag -Australian Govt Secures Copyright

The Killing Times: Aboriginal Flag -Australian Government Secures Copyright After Row

The Aboriginal flag was designed in 1971

  • The Australian government has bought the Aboriginal flag's copyright in a bid to "free" the symbol of identity from bitter fights over who can use it.

BBC 26 JAN 2022






Indigenous artist Harold Thomas created the flag in 1971 as a protest image but it is now the dominant Aboriginal emblem and an official national flag.



Despite this, many Aboriginal people say the flag has been "held hostage" by copyright deals that limit its display.

The flag can now be reproduced by anyone without fear of legal threats.

"Over the last 50 years we made Harold Thomas' artwork our own - we marched under the Aboriginal flag, stood behind it, and flew it high as a point of pride," said Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt.

"Now that the Commonwealth holds the copyright, it belongs to everyone, and no-one can take it away."

The government paid more than A$20m (£11m; $14m) in total to secure the copyright from Mr Thomas and to terminate lease agreements, media reports said.

It has followed pressure from Aboriginal groups and controversies in sports such as the Australian Football League (AFL), which began refusing to pay leaseholders to display the flag.

"The flag belongs to all Aboriginal people. Why do they have to pay for it?" one petition organiser, Laura Thompson, told the BBC in 2020.

"It's a symbol of our people's survival. Many of us don't identify with the Australian flag because for us it represents colonisation and invasion."





Cathy Freeman famously celebrated with the Aboriginal and Australian flags after winning a gold medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics





Mr Thomas has previously said he leased rights to the flag to receive royalties for his artwork, and to prevent knock-offs made overseas.

"In the future, the flag will remain, not as a symbol of struggle, but as a symbol of pride and unity," he wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday.

The fight to 'free' the Aboriginal flag



Though Aboriginal Australians have widely welcomed the change, some have queried why it was announced 24 hours before Australia Day.

The annual holiday on 26 January is controversial because it commemorates the arrival of Britain's First Fleet in 1788. Many Australians call it "invasion day".

"[Prime Minister Scott Morrison] is diverting the narrative so come Jan 26 he can claim to be a hero and miss the whole point of why we protest every year," Aboriginal artist Rachael Sarra wrote on Instagram on Tuesday.

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Movies Aboriginal Flag to Fly on Sydney Harbour Bridge

Capturing Aboriginal Australia and its Diversity on Camera

BBC News 21 Apr 2022


Aboriginal photographer Wayne Quilliam has been travelling across Australia for 30 years, documenting its hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups.

He shares people’s stories, he says, so others can better understand the diversity of Aboriginal cultures.

"I don't generally reflect on the negatives of what's happening in our communities because there are so many that do so," he says.

A warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers: This video contains images of people who may have died.



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Aboriginal Flag to Permanently Fly on Sydney Harbour Bridge

The Aboriginal flag will now permanently fly on one of Australia's most iconic landmarks, after a five-year campaign by advocates.

BBC News 15 JUL 2022






The Aboriginal flag now has a permanent home at the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Earlier this year, the New South Wales (NSW) state government announced it would add the flag - and a new pole - to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

But this would take up to two years and cost A$25m (£14m; $17m), it said.



After a backlash, officials said they would immediately display the flag on an existing pole instead.

The bridge usually shows the Australian and NSW flags. The Aboriginal flag has been flown in place of the state flag on a handful of days throughout the year.

It will now permanently replace the NSW flag, which will instead be displayed somewhere else in Sydney in a location which is yet to be determined.

The A$25m set aside for the initial plan will instead be spent on initiatives to reduce disadvantage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said.

The large price was due to the complex work required to install a new, six-storey flagpole atop the heritage-listed bridge and replace the other two.

Komilaroi woman Cheree Toka has campaigned for the change for five years, starting a petition which amassed more than 170,000 signatures.

She said the move was long overdue, hoping that other locations across the country would follow.

"Yes, it is a symbolic gesture, however, it identifies the true history of Australia and to see that flag on the bridge will spark conversation and educate people about the Indigenous people of this country," Ms Toka told the Sydney Morning Herald in February.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced last week that the Aboriginal flag would also have a permanent place atop Melbourne's West Gate Bridge. It too replaces the state flag.

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Movies Shocking Number of Indigenous Deaths in Prison

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A Nick McKenzie major investigation. SUNDAY on #60Mins, whistleblowers expose the shameful neglect of Indigenous Australians in prison.



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The Scandal Surrounding The Shocking Number of Indigenous Deaths in Prison

There’s no nice way to put it: the shocking number of Aboriginal deaths in custody is a national disgrace.


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Sadly though, good intentions have not translated into meaningful action. In the 32 years since the Royal Commission, more than 527 Indigenous Australians have died while locked up.


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Australian BOY 13, Spent Six Weeks in Solitary Confinement

A 13-year-old Indigenous Australian boy spent 45 days in solitary confinement while being held for minor offences, in the latest youth justice case to raise human rights concerns in Queensland.


BBC 16 MAR 2023


The boy - referred to as "Jack" - was released on probation last week after 60 days in custody at Cleveland Youth Detention Centre in Townsville.


He is understood to have spent 22 consecutive days in isolation.

Queensland's human rights chief says the case may have broken state laws.


'No serious criminal history'

Jack was being held on remand on charges relating to a fight with another 13-year-old boy, at the detention centre some 1,300km north of Brisbane.

He flooded his cell with water from the toilet in desperation at his situation, and after being denied drinking water, his barrister Tim Grau told the BBC.




Describing his detention as "extraordinary and cruel", Mr Grau said Jack had "no serious criminal history".

"He was 13, he'd been in court once before. So even for this offending, he was never going to get a period of incarceration, in my view," he said.

Mr Grau said he didn't know why Jack spent so long in isolation, but suspected it was due to staff shortages at the prison.

"If he's being locked in because there's staff shortages, and Cleveland detention centre has 80 or more kids in at any one time, one can only assume that other kids are in the same circumstance.

"You would hope not, but maybe it's more common than we thought."

Jack's period of detention included six days being held in adult prisons. He was released last week with a verbal reprimand.

A separate recent case also raised human rights concerns over the Queensland's youth justice system, which is currently undergoing reform.

In February, it emerged that another 13-year-old Queensland boy with developmental disabilities spent 78 days confined to a cell for 20 hours per day.

Queensland is currently debating new laws which would criminalise bail breaches by minors - a change which will cause the youth prison population to increase dramatically, experts warn.

State Human Rights Commissioner Scott McDougall said the recent cases may have breached Queensland's Human Rights Act, which states all prisoners should have access to fresh air and exercise for a minimum of two hours a day.

He warned that changes to the law would only make the situation worse, and that immediate steps were needed to stop children being placed in isolation.

"Unfortunately, I don't think they're isolated cases," he told the BBC.

"Given the laws that are [being] passed in Queensland, which are clearly intended to incarcerate more children, it becomes even more important that the government urgently develops a coherent plan for preventing children coming within the criminal justice system, " he said.

"My concern is by increasing the pressure on the system, we risk normalising the mistreatment of children".

Mr McDougall urged the state government to "double down" on measures to keep children in school and stop them going down "the path of criminalisation".


Youth detention centres 'complex and difficult'

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were 12 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous Australians in 2021, the Queensland Statisticians Office says.



Rates of juvenile incarceration are also high, with Indigenous children accounting for some 70% of detainees across most of Queensland, and over 90% in the state's north.

Overcrowded facilities mean children and minors often have to be housed in adult prisons known as watch houses. Most juvenile detainees are being held on remand.

In a statement to the BBC, a spokesperson for Queensland's Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs said solitary confinement or "separations" were only used as a last resort.

Youth detention centres were "complex and difficult environments, and practices used in the centres are designed to ensure the safety of staff and young people at all times," the spokesperson said.

"At all times during a separation, young people have access to visits and professional support services, phone calls, education material, meal routines and recreational activities."


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Aboriginal 'Giant of a Nation' Yunupingu Dies Aged 74

Yunupingu was a trailblazer in the fight for land rights and the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people in Australia.


BBC 4 APR 2023




One of Australia's most influential Aboriginal leaders Yunupingu has died after a long illness in the Northern Territory, aged 74.

The Gumatj clan leader was named Australian of the Year in 1978.



Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led tributes to him, saying he had been a great leader and statesman.

Note to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers: Yunupingu's last name and image are used here in accordance with the wishes of his family.

"Yunupingu walked in two worlds within authority, power and grace, and he worked to make them whole - together," Mr Albanese wrote on Twitter.

"He now walks in another place, but he has left such great footsteps for us to follow in this one."

Yunupingu rose to prominence in the land rights movement in the 1960s, and was part of the first Australian legal case which tested the native title rights of First Nations people.

Over the next 50 years Yunupingu went on to advise successive governments and was also celebrated as a singer, artist and promoter of Indigenous culture.

He helped set up the Northern Land Council, which represents traditional owners in the Northern Territory's Top End, and also helped create the Yothu Yindi Foundation, which is one of the peak advocacy bodies for Aboriginal Australians.

He received an Order of Australia medal for his services to the Aboriginal community in 1985.



In recent years he advocated for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people through the Voice to Parliament, on which a national referendum will take place later this year.

His daughter, Binmila Yunupingu, said her father's death was a profound loss.

"Yunupingu lived his entire life on his land, surrounded by the sound of bilma (clapsticks), yidaki (didgeridoo) and the manikay (sacred song) and dhulang (sacred designs) of our people. He was born on our land… and he died on our land secure in the knowledge that his life's work was secure," she said.

The Yothu Yindi Foundation described Yunupingu as "a giant of the nation".


"He was first and foremost a leader of his people, whose welfare was his most pressing concern and responsibility," a spokesperson said in a statement.




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Indigenous Australians; First Nations Remains Discovered at Site of $3bn Adelaide Housing Development

The discovery of what an archeological assessment has deemed a burial ground has distressed the Kaurna people, many of whom ‘know in our hearts that it’s probably a massacre site’

BBC 13 NOV 2023





An 1839 expedition up the Gawler River led by Capt Charles Sturt documented an Indigenous burial site. Almost 200 years later, 27 Kaurna ancestral remains were found.



The discovery of what an archeological assessment has deemed a burial ground has distressed the Kaurna people, many of whom ‘know in our hearts that it’s probably a massacre site’, according to one activist

In 1839, an expedition led by explorer Capt Charles Sturt in South Australia came across “a native burying place” as they navigated the Gawler River north of Adelaide. In a report on the expedition, Sturt describes “a circular mound of earth surrounded by fine tall gum trees, notched in various places”.

Sturt led several expeditions in the early days of colonisation. Before his reported trip up the Gawler, he followed the paths of rivers including the Murray and the Darling, hoping to find a rumoured inland sea.

Almost 200 years later, 27 Kaurna ancestral remains were found near the Gawler River when work began on a $3bn housing development.

The remains have been exhumed and stored in a shipping container while the community and the developer work out a long-term solution.

The discovery has sparked fears and claims it was a previously unknown massacre site, while an archaeological assessment determined it was a burial place dating from before colonisation.

Either way, the disturbance of the remains has distressed the Kaurna community. While Kaurna people wanted them left in place, reburial at a new site nearby is now the most likely option – but protests against the original disturbance are ongoing.

The area, about 30km north of Adelaide, is called Buckland Park. Part of Buckland Park was renamed Riverlea Park last year as Walker Buckland Park Developments (a subsidiary of Lang Walker’s Walker Corporation) started its development.

There are plans to build 12,000 homes on 1,340 hectares over the next two decades.

Construction started in 2021 and some residents have already moved in.

In April this year, the first remains were found in a spot at Riverlea, just south of the Gawler River. Work was stopped and an exclusion area was established while the local native title group, Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation (KYAC), was given leadership over the site and access to remove and relocate the remains.

Along with the ancestral remains, there are artefacts and evidence of “an extensive camping area used repeatedly by large numbers of people”, according to the state government.

The Walker Corporation has applied for authorisation to continue development, because state law makes it an offence to “excavate land to uncover any Aboriginal site, object or ancestral remains (together, heritage) without authorisation”, to “damage, disturb or interfere with heritage without authorisations” and “to remove an Aboriginal object from the state, without authorisation”. The state government is now consulting with the community on that authorisation.

The excavated remains are still on site, in a shipping container, under the care of KYAC.

In 1839, the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register printed an excerpt from Sturt’s journey from Strange’s Creek – now Stranges Creek – about 9km east of Riverlea to the Gawler River. Sturt’s surveyor, David Lindsay, describes the trip, travelling “close to a spot where we found a native well”.

Excerpt from Captain Charles Sturt’s journey from Stranges Creek up the Gawler River to what is now known as Riverlea, published in the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register.

“There is also a native burying-place at this spot – a circular mound of earth surrounded by fine tall gum trees, notched in various places,” Lindsay reported.

Modified trees – where the bark has been removed for ceremonies, canoes or shields – have also been found at the Riverlea site.

The KYAC chair and Kaurna elder, Tim Agius, says observations from Sturt’s expedition show that style of burial mound with scar trees predates colonisation – although it could be a different burial mound to the one found at Riverlea.

“It goes to the fact it was a significant campsite,” he says, adding that it is now a significant historical and archaeological site.

He says that since new laws were introduced in 1988, the practice has been to relocate remains as near as practical to the original burial site. “It was the elders at the time, about 30 years ago, that made the decision to relocate ancestral remains as close as possible to their burial site where they were discovered,” he says.

“I can imagine how disappointed and upset they were at making that decision.”

Then Agius himself had to make a difficult decision to remove the Riverlea remains in order to protect them. And he hopes that the community can now come together.

“This really is a watershed moment for us. And we need to come together to talk about this and make recommendations to the state government and the minister about what should happen in the future,” he says.

The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, says an archaeological assessment had ruled out any massacre at the site.

“Apparently, the way that the burial has taken place is consistent with practices well before colonial times,” he says.

“But that does not change the fact that there is a degree of significance to the burial site.”

Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation chair Tim Agius says ‘we need to come together to talk about’ the fate of Aboriginal remains found near Adelaide.

The attorney general and Aboriginal affairs minister, Kyam Maher, says it is a sad truth that ancestral remains have been and will continue to be discovered and disturbed.

“There’s been tens of thousands of years of human habitation on this continent, thousands of generations of people, almost every part of SA will have evidence of that,” he says.

“That’s why it’s so important we do all we can to preserve the heritage of the remains.”

Natasha Wanganeen, a Kaurna actor and activist, believes it was the site of a massacre. She wants the remains reburied where they were found and development stopped.

“It’s a duty of care for Aboriginal communities to look after visitors and people who travel across our lands. We don’t want to put anyone at risk by living near a sacred spot … Their spirits won’t be safe,” she says.

“We all know in our hearts that it’s probably a massacre site. We can feel it.
Natasha Wanganeen says if a massacre occurred at the site, ‘everyone needs to know that. It would be one of the biggest in the country.’

“If it’s a massacre site, everyone needs to know that. It would be one of the biggest in the country.”

She is organising a rally and petition to have the ancestors returned to where they were found until her group can organise their own investigation.

Ian Carter, a Kaurna man and former state director of Aboriginal affairs, also told the Advertiser newspaper that it could be a massacre site.

“We don’t bury them like that. As far as I know, we don’t have group burials like a cemetery,” he said.

The SA government will consult traditional owners, interested Aboriginal people and Aboriginal organisations on the proposed authorisation until 24 November.

Walker has committed to a memorial, a “keeping place” for objects and a resting place for the disturbed ancestral remains of the 27 Kaurna ancestors.

Eventually, Riverlea will be home to 30,000 residents.

Agius says Kaurna is the only native title group with a native title claim across a whole city, meaning building works will keep disturbing ancestral remains.

“The community are upset. This is something that’s been imposed on us because of colonisation on Kaurna land,” he says.







“Riverlea is not going to be the last. This will happen again.”

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