Opinion: The PM took it upon himself to assert that First Nations peoples were holding Sorry Business over the death of the monarch. I wasn’t, but I did observe people who should know better – black and white – fawning over the spectacle of the occasion...
, whose community at Daish’s Paddock, an Aboriginal camp outside Shepparton in Victoria’s north, received a royal visit from Queen Elizabeth II in the 1950s.
Well, of a visit of sorts. The community was literally covered up so the royals wouldn’t have to see it as they passed by on their way to inspect a local fruit cannery. This was around the time Uncle Jack was forcibly removed from his parents as a four-month-old baby and placed into state care in Victoria. A state named in honour of a British Queen.We also lost Aunty Esther Carroll , a Wiradjuri matriarch.
: a protest that followed years of petitioning by the Australian Aborigines League and the Aborigines Progressive Association to, “His Majesty the King, to exercise the Royal Prerogative by intervening for the preservation of our race from extinction and to grant representation to our race in the Federal Parliament.”
Another was the passing of Dennis “Mop” Conlon on Sunday night. Conlon, from Cherbourg, a former Aboriginal mission in a state named Queensland, was a respected community advocate, but is best known for penning and recording protest songs like
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