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Miranda Must Go
Photo by Bruce Hedge
Photo by Bruce Hedge
Hanging Rock is situated within the traditional country of the
Woiwurrung or Wurundjeri Aboriginal people and fell within the estate
of the Gunung willam baluk (Creek dwelling people) whose country
centred on Mount Macedon (Clark, 1990). Indigenous information
about the rocks use in pre-European times is sparse, but it is believed
to have been used for intertribal meetings and male initiation
ceremonies (Gisborne and Mount Macedon Districts Historical
Society, 2012: 6). Archaeological surveys in the district have
established a human presence in the area 36,000 years ago (Loder &
Bayly, 1993: 10).
Stephanie Skidmore and Ian D. Clark
Hanging Rock Recreation Reserve Case Study
[] it was only after the abandonment of the long-established policy
of concentrated settlement that exclusive territorial claims beyond
defined borders were made, perfect sovereignty over Aboriginal
country was asserted, and the continental land rush began.
Between 1835 and 1838 alone, more land and more people were
conquered than in the preceding half century. By the end of the 1840s,
squatters had seized nearly twenty million hectares of the most
productive and best watered Aboriginal homelands, comprising most
of the grasslands in what are now Victoria, NSW, South Australia and
southern Queensland. It was one of the fastest land occupations in the
history of empires. In little more than a decade, the continental
pinpricks which represented the totality of British occupation in 1835,
became a sea of red.
James Boyce, historian
The all-engulfing ferocity of the Victorian land grab became even more
destructive in 1851, when the discovery of gold caused large areas of the
countryside to swarm with people whose only motivation for being there
was greed. By the end of the 1850s, Indigenous people in Victoria had
suffered a demographic collapse. According to the official figures of the
colonial governments Board for the Protection of the Aborigines, 2,341
Aboriginal people remained alive in Victoria in 1861. Twenty-five years
later, [in 1886] that figure had fallen to 806. But the most intense attrition
had occurred before 1861, especially in the decade following White
colonisation in the mid-1830s. The lower end of estimates for the
Aboriginal population as it stood in 1835 suggests a total of around 12,000
people (a figure already substantially reduced by smallpox epidemics).
Eight hundred and six being roughly 6 per cent of 12,000, it is misleading
to talk of the Aboriginal population of Victoria as having been decimated,
since the population level fell to well below 10 per cent. This is far and
away the largest fact in Victorias history, one that dwarfs the campaign
for the eight-hour day, the career of Ned Kelly, the holding of the first
Australian federal parliaments or the staging of the Melbourne Olympics.
My work does provoke people. It provokes fanatic people, both from the
Israeli and the Polish side. I think it scares them because they take it very real
and one to one, as if tomorrow Im sending three million Jews back to Poland
Yael Bartana
#decolonizethisplace
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The black lives matter movement have defaced confederate monuments in the US
Disagreement/contestation of history and the efforts by those in power to erase signs of that disagreement
Jefferson Davis statue removed at University of Texas after being the target of vandals who view it as a
symbol of racism, August 2015
Cecil Rhodes statue removed in April 2015.
www.amyspiers.com.au
www.mirandamustgo.info
Catherine Ryan
Manifesto for the New Political Pop Song
www.scribd.com/document/353586682/Manifesto-for-the-New-Political-Pop-Song
Nothing To See Here (Dispersal) (2014)
Closed to the Public (Protecting Space)
(2014, 2016, 2017)
www.scribd.com/document/353586682/Manifesto-for-the-New-Political-Pop-Song
Left Melancholia and Dwelling in
the Negative
http://thefuturesofthepast.wordpress.com