Aus. Prime Minister denies Slavery in Australia!

Scott Morrison has made some huge gaffs in his career politician life.  He has shown himself to be a largely ignorant and under educated man and more so in the last few days.

The present prime minister took it upon himself to attempt to re-write history on a radio 2GB interview about BLM protests in Australia with comments regarding Slavery in Australia's history. 

Morrison said there wasn't slavery and that Australia was not built on Slavery.  He really messed it up so badly.

This man is a complete embarrassment to this land on the world stage and at home.   The world should be aware we are led now by a Christian narcissist.  We've had our fair share of Christian Circus Clowns - Tony Abbott the priest was bad enough.

Slavery was most certainly a very real part of this lands recent history since the days of the first colony at Sydney Cove.

I don't want this swept under the carpet any longer.  I want the NSW Education board along with other state and territory Education boards to look closely at their part in continuing the lie about Terra Nullius.    If there is going to be the indoctrination in schools then at least get history right as this should be taught in schools. 

Our kids deserve to know that Captain Phillip was not a good guy and he ignored the wishes of the Crown and went straight ahead and killed people as soon as he landed.

The children in schools are not taught the truth about the lengthy Frontier Wars that occurred here in the Nineteenth century and the genocidal tactics employed by the colonists to rid the place of people to back up the lie about no one being here and it being no mans land. 

That lie is the biggest one that has to be rectified by truth telling and in all levels of law and accepted and acted upon. 

What good is it to recognise it if it does not come with the returning of the rights of the people to their land that was stolen.  The Crown has to come toward the black fellah, not the other way around.

I hope this highlights the fact that there is a serious situation down here that has been festering for over 230 years now and if its not dealt with things will deteriorate and I don't want that happening on my watch.

I love this land - her ancient people of which I am apart of because I am standing with them and I stand on Ngarabal land and I respect that and acknowledge that. 

I understand being disenfranchised and how bad that is and my skin is not black and therefore my disenfranchisement had white privilege attached. It seems people find that difficult to understand how much more difficult it is for folk because of this.

I am angry about because my brothers and sisters deserve so much more in real terms and I am not speaking about money.  Money cannot buy what I am talking about.  Its a mind set change.
 I have heard the ancestors.  They revealed themselves to me and made everything get really real back in 2012.

 My story is my story and my story must help to make a difference for the good and the health of this astounding and precious land and its waters and everything that lives upon the land and in the waters.

Australia is by far without a doubt the most unique land on Earth.

 Seriously, Scott Morrison views just pale against that to the point there is no comparison to be had anywhere.  Its just rot that he thinks his words are more powerful than 120,000 years of continuous existence of sadly now 230 of what was over 530 different nations of this land.  He's a complete idiot.

SLAVE MAP of AUSTRALIA - click the link to the Conversation Article.

Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate

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BLACKBIRDING was SLAVERY!

Australia has such a dark past where its treatment of people are concerned from the beginning of colonization onwards, it still hasn't stopped not for one day, not at all.

Black-birding as it was known as is just another one of those grim practices thrust upon a people who never asked for it and who were lied to and cheated and treated abhorrently by their captives.  Those white men from Australia who scourged the islands for men for their labor force in the cane fields back on the East coast of Queensland and Northern New South Wales especially around the Tweed and Cudgen areas of Northern New South Wales were the cruel men who blackbirded.

Northern NSW Coastline

In the late 1800s thousands of Melanesian Islanders were removed from their homelands, locked in boats and carted to Australia to work in Queensland's cane fields. It was virtually slavery.   George Negus

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Melanesian's were black-birded to cut cane in North Queensland and the NSW North Coast.  This is slavery, genocide and theft of a humans life without a doubt.  Most died because of the conditions but some survived and then in turn those who survived the cruel treatment from land owners  had to beg for work as the years went on and the labor force changed as the government instituted the White Australia Policy and paid farmers a dividend if they employed white labor on farms instead of Kanakas as they were known as. 
There is still a huge population of people in around the North Queensland towns of Mackay and Sarina who are from Vanuatu and those surrounding islands.  Their families are largely unknown to them and their true heritage stolen from them just the same way as the Aboriginal people were abused when this land was stolen by the British colonists.

What happened to the descendants of those people?  Did they intermingle with local aboriginal tribes to form a new race of aboriginal that combined the genetics of a time once forgotten from when these people were all one and there was no ocean between them.  A time when dry land and kangaroos grazed areas of the Pacific Ocean as we have it today.   I think they were all one people once and were separated after the last cataclysm by the rising seas cutting off their land bridges.

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This is something those governments and monarchists would not have considered in the day when they stole these people from their islands to enslave them as indentured workers on cane farms.  Work they clearly needed lots of labor for and clearly  they wanted to pay the least amount out for this
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 Slavery was alive and well in Australia in the early 1900's.

 

This is the century I was born in, the 20th Century bore slavery in this country and tried like crazy to cover this up to the world.  But the truth always floats to the top.  There are people who desire to be reunited with their cousins and kin and the Australian Government should see to it that these people are reunited at the cost to the crown, not the Australian people.  The Australian people did not do this act of genocide.  The crown committed this act allowing it in the first place and condoning it after 1901 when Australia became federated and the states and territories were formed.

George Negus did a fascinating story on one such family and you can read the transcript to this HERE at GNT 

Kanakas -  "Kanaka", sometimes used as a derogatory name, originally referred only to native Hawaiians, called kānaka ʻōiwi or kānaka maoli in the Hawaiʻian language.

Pacific Ocean ... across that ocean was their home.

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