“Subject to continual police persecution, blamed for every petty crime committed in the district, their mother thrown into gaol for an alleged assault on a police officer subsequently dismissed from the service for misconduct, it is small wonder that these high-spirited youths, nursing a fierce resentment of the injustice they had suffered, should, mistaken as they may have been, as a last resource gave battle to their persecutors. Whilst they were prepared to engage the police and their agents in open warfare, they were determined not to sully their names with any crime against their civilian neighbours. During their long career as bushrangers, apart from their open enemies, they offered violence to no man and insult to no woman…
“The Kellys’ conduct contrasts very favourably in this regard with the outrageous behaviour of Sergeant Steele at Glenrowan, when he fired upon a fleeing mother with a baby in her arms. The Kellys were merely in revolt against persecution, not against Society as reflected by the laws of the State.
As Peter Lalor and his diggers found it necessary to give armed resistance to police tyranny in Ballarat, so Ned Kelly and his followers found themselves faced with a similar alternative. For his part in shooting down the armed forces of tyranny at Ballarat Peter Lalor was soon after acclaimed the popular hero of his day. For a somewhat similar resistance to persecution Ned Kelly was hanged, but, now that time has dispelled the mists of prejudice from the scenes of the Kellys’ activities, their names are coming to be held in far higher respect than those of their official persecutors.”
- Foreword to 'The Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang and Their Pursuers, by J. J. Kenneally' by Gerald C. Stanley, J.P.
As Peter Lalor and his diggers found it necessary to give armed resistance to police tyranny in Ballarat, so Ned Kelly and his followers found themselves faced with a similar alternative. For his part in shooting down the armed forces of tyranny at Ballarat Peter Lalor was soon after acclaimed the popular hero of his day. For a somewhat similar resistance to persecution Ned Kelly was hanged, but, now that time has dispelled the mists of prejudice from the scenes of the Kellys’ activities, their names are coming to be held in far higher respect than those of their official persecutors.”
- Foreword to 'The Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang and Their Pursuers, by J. J. Kenneally' by Gerald C. Stanley, J.P.
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Judy Davis and Sam Neill in the acclaimed Australian New Wave film My Brilliant Career.
Author Miles Franklin, on whose book the film is based and who gives her name to Australia's most prestigious literary award, was born this day in 1879.
Author Miles Franklin, on whose book the film is based and who gives her name to Australia's most prestigious literary award, was born this day in 1879.
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What misapplications and criticisms alike of Christian notions of forgiveness have in common is the failure to recognize that Christ's forgiveness is only accessible by those who repent.
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In this interview, Ned tells the story of how him, his mates and his family (especially his Mother, who was arrested on false charges of assault against a police officer) were treated unjustly at the hands of the Victorian Police. Ned was not a fan of the…
Remarkable image showing the 'big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splay-footed' Victorian Police vs the notorious bushranger Edward E. Kelly.
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127 years ago on October 4th 1895, Buster Keaton was born
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The Eureka Stockade
This unrest came to a head at dawn on 3 December 1854, at the now legendary Eureka Stockade. Here, 120 angry miners revolted against police and soldiers, leaving thirty-five men dead. The courage, resistance to authority and support for freedom displayed by the miners has shaped ideas of Australian nationhood ever since.
Raffaello Carboni, an active participant, relates the story behind the myth. His eyewitness account, first published in 1855, vividly and accurately evokes the excitement, drama and horror of the Eureka Stockade, and its aftermath."
by Raffaello Carboni (1855)"Italian revolutionary Raffaello Carboni reached the Ballarat goldfields in 1853 looking for adventure and wealth. Instead, he found growing unrest among the miners, who were straining against harsh and oppressive government regulations.
This unrest came to a head at dawn on 3 December 1854, at the now legendary Eureka Stockade. Here, 120 angry miners revolted against police and soldiers, leaving thirty-five men dead. The courage, resistance to authority and support for freedom displayed by the miners has shaped ideas of Australian nationhood ever since.
Raffaello Carboni, an active participant, relates the story behind the myth. His eyewitness account, first published in 1855, vividly and accurately evokes the excitement, drama and horror of the Eureka Stockade, and its aftermath."
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The academic Left in Australia is fixated upon whitewashing Aboriginal history to make them out to be noble savages which lived in a kind of primitive utopia. This is done by straight up lying in service of a victimology with the clear aim of justifying the oppression of White Australians.
One fact which they have suppressed and I find particularly of note is the very real historical phenomenon of Aboriginal cannibalism. One particularly disgusting documented example in this essay detailing the evidence for the practice is the infanticide of their excess children for the purpose of..dinner! Infanticide however was such a common practice in Aboriginal society that I guess it was only a matter of time before they thought to eat them.
Rev. George Taplin (1831–79), a prominent Congregationalist missionary to Aborigines in the Murray Valley, stated that in the early 1860s, “one-third of the infants which were born were put to death. Every child which was born before the one which preceded it could walk was destroyed, because the mother was regarded as incapable of carrying two.”
I mean what a truly utopian and noble society which we evil white man ruthlessly dominated with our evil imperialist impulses!
I mean to be fair it does seem like the abos were mostly eating people who died anyway rather than killing people specifically for the purpose of eating them, well except for a particular apparently especially tasty group.. 😋🤣
Aboriginal cannibals demonstrated a number of distinctive culinary preferences. It appears that they greatly favoured the taste of Chinese people, whom they found and killed in remote areas of settlement, over the apparently saltier taste of Europeans.
Maybe there is a natural solution to the Chinese problem after all! One struggle?
One fact which they have suppressed and I find particularly of note is the very real historical phenomenon of Aboriginal cannibalism. One particularly disgusting documented example in this essay detailing the evidence for the practice is the infanticide of their excess children for the purpose of..dinner! Infanticide however was such a common practice in Aboriginal society that I guess it was only a matter of time before they thought to eat them.
Rev. George Taplin (1831–79), a prominent Congregationalist missionary to Aborigines in the Murray Valley, stated that in the early 1860s, “one-third of the infants which were born were put to death. Every child which was born before the one which preceded it could walk was destroyed, because the mother was regarded as incapable of carrying two.”
I mean what a truly utopian and noble society which we evil white man ruthlessly dominated with our evil imperialist impulses!
I mean to be fair it does seem like the abos were mostly eating people who died anyway rather than killing people specifically for the purpose of eating them, well except for a particular apparently especially tasty group.. 😋🤣
Aboriginal cannibals demonstrated a number of distinctive culinary preferences. It appears that they greatly favoured the taste of Chinese people, whom they found and killed in remote areas of settlement, over the apparently saltier taste of Europeans.
Maybe there is a natural solution to the Chinese problem after all! One struggle?
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Reverend W. H. Pownall on the Lambing Flat Riots of 1861: “The anger of European elements grew as the Chinese warmed up to [mining], action was decided upon: about 3,000 men accompanied by a band playing “Rule Britannia” marched from Tipperary Gully to Victoria…
William Guthrie Spence on the anti-Chinese movement and Clunes Rebellion of 1873:
“The anti-Chinese movement was one of the early developments of democratic feeling in Australia. So strong was it that in 1861 it led to riot amongst the diggers at Lambing Flat, Burrangong, New South Wales. They drove the Chinese off the field, some of the pig-tailed heathens losing their lives. There were at that time 38,000 Chinese in the two colonies of New South Wales and Victoria— 12,988 in the former, and 24,732 in the latter.
But for the action of the gold diggers and restriction of Chinese immigration by a poll tax and otherwise, Australia would have been practically a Chinese possession. The same strong feeling that caused the Lambing Flat diggers to revolt actuated the miners of Clunes, Victoria, in 1876. The directors of the Lothair Gold Mining Company decided to introduce Chinese labor. The miners, who were all members of the A.M.A., determined to resist…
“The anti-Chinese movement was one of the early developments of democratic feeling in Australia. So strong was it that in 1861 it led to riot amongst the diggers at Lambing Flat, Burrangong, New South Wales. They drove the Chinese off the field, some of the pig-tailed heathens losing their lives. There were at that time 38,000 Chinese in the two colonies of New South Wales and Victoria— 12,988 in the former, and 24,732 in the latter.
But for the action of the gold diggers and restriction of Chinese immigration by a poll tax and otherwise, Australia would have been practically a Chinese possession. The same strong feeling that caused the Lambing Flat diggers to revolt actuated the miners of Clunes, Victoria, in 1876. The directors of the Lothair Gold Mining Company decided to introduce Chinese labor. The miners, who were all members of the A.M.A., determined to resist…
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William Guthrie Spence on the anti-Chinese movement and Clunes Rebellion of 1873: “The anti-Chinese movement was one of the early developments of democratic feeling in Australia. So strong was it that in 1861 it led to riot amongst the diggers at Lambing…
The Chinese were to be brought from Creswick, eleven miles distant. Two coaches were filled with Chinese and placed under police escort. The miners had mounted pickets out, and were informed of every move. There are two roads to the town, and that on the west side, where the mine was situated, was blockaded by the miners. On discovering this the coaches were turned, and, crossing a deep creek, they made for the town by the other road. The miners rushed across, having about a mile to run, and hastily improvised a barricade, effectually blocking the way so far as the coaches were concerned. The excitement and cheering were great, men, women, and children joining in the resistance. Near by was a heap of road metal, and arming herself with a few stones a sturdy North of Ireland woman, without shoes or stockings, mounted the barricade as the coaches drew up…