This paper highlights Lyndall Ryan’s article ‘Australia’s uncomfortable black armband’ where Australia’s violent past towards Aborigines is discussed.
Australia’s uncomfortable black armband
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Colonialism
Passionate Histories
For the contents of this remarkable 348 page document, Passionate Histories, covering massacres in Queensland, Tasmania and Beersheba, myths of the referendum, indigenous indolence, resistance and massacres, identity, myth and memory, and the Stolen Generations, read...
Black War
‘Black War’ identifies the conflict between British Colonists and Tasmanian Aborigines in the nineteenth century. Although historians vary on their definition of when the conflict began and ended, it is best understood as the officially sanctioned time of declared...
India: The Salt March
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India, led by Mahatma Gandhi. We believe that it is the inalienable right of the Indian people, as of any other people, to...
Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine / Israel
“Discourse on Israel, both propagandistic and analytical, has the peculiar tendency of representing it at one moment as normal – a normal democracy, a normal Western society, a normal state – and at others as exceptional: a democracy uniquely embattled among hostile...
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi was born in 1920 in Tunisia, a French protectorate, of a Tunisian Jewish mother. He claims to be of Berber ancestry and at an early age realised he was a native in a country oppressed by a colonial European power, writing this classic work in 1957. He saw...
Black War: Tasmania
Tasmania’s Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember? Nicholas Clement, a Research Associate at the University of Tasmania writes about the importance of remembering Tasmania’s Black War on Anzac Day in Australia, urging against the general ambivalence of most...
California, land of the free?
“In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their...
Tony Abbott – Prime Minister of a then unsettled, or, um, scarcely settled Great South Land
“I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled, Great South Land,” declared Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott as he delivered the keynote address to the...