week ending 29 May 2020

 Rio Tinto blow up  Puutu Kunti Kurruma country with 46,00 year old Pilbara sacred sites
 ...

Yindjibarndi win High Court appeal and now their exclusive native title rights are affirmed 2020
FMG first appealed in 2018
...
George Floyd killed by police officer Dan Chauvin in Minneapolis

Africans: First Fleeters

African Americans in First Fleet and afterwards
Cassandra Pybus Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers
'Did you know there were 12 Africans aboard the First Fleet?'

John Randall
Martin
'Black Caesar' - first bushranger
Billy Blue - ferryman, Blues Point
John Williams aka Black Jack - Kangaroo Island

William Blue ( Billy Blue): New South Wales State Library

What it is to be here: colonisation and resistance

In response to the anniversary of Cook making landfall in Kamay/ Botany Bay I have made an exhibition to display at The Portico Library, Manchester
Due to Covid19 close-down, it is now online until the Library opens:
What it is to be here: colonisation and resistance

Parkinson _ Sydney

Sydney Parkinson

link to NMA

Sourdough

more sourdough tips
Starter
Starter 7 steps
keeping small starter 
reviving starter

 Uses for spare starter

15 Mistakes

Starting 

Sticky

Cinnamon rolls
and again 

2020 Australian reporting on Cook

ABC video Encounters

Stan Grant Between the Ship & the Shore

Voice to Parliament

Co-design
Explanation of next steps - the co-design
Marcia Langton and Tom Calma in The Conversation


'However important symbols are to Aboriginal people, nine years of this work shows, incontrovertibly, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not seek more symbols. And certainly not in the constitution, which distributes power across the federation. They seek change that can make a concrete difference to their lives.'

Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians must involve structural change, not mere symbolism   Megan Davis 18 Feb 2020 The Conversation


and now another committee to consult and propose models for voices to regional, local,  and national governments... but no mention of Treaty (as yet)
Indigenous voice co-design  
https://www.niaa.gov.au/indigenous-affairs/indigenous-voice#resources

June Oscar AO 2018 One year on
“Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have consistently called for greater control over our destinies, for the ability to live freely and equally, and for greater recognition of our rights as the First Peoples of this land. We cannot afford to dismiss what our people have been calling for, for generations.
“We must not forget that this issue speaks not only to the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but to the aspirations of all Australians – about the kind of nation we hope to share together.”

Commissioner Oscar urges the Government to respond to the Committee’s recommendations when the final report is released.
“I hope that one day, our political leaders will have the courage to honour the voices of our peoples as captured in the Uluru Statement and the numerous other processes related to constitutional reform that we have taken part in across the country.

“I believe, the citizens of this country, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, all want a strong, just and equal nation”

Coranderrk

link to Minutes of Evidence - parliamentary inquiry into call for self-determination and land by Kulin people

Their fundamental demands were simple yet radical: as stated in their final petition – 

signed by Barak and forty-five men, women and children: 

"We want the Board and the Inspector, Captain Page, to be no longer over us. 

We want only one man here, and that is Mr. John Green, 

and the station to be under the Chief Secretary; 

then we will show the country that the station could self-support itself."

Blanket day

link to photo 

Australian Aboriginals / photographed by Kerry & Co.
Copyright and permissions: Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Call number: PX*D 398  IE number: IE3220707 File number: FL3221023

Atmosphere

CAM Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service
European Union's Earth observation services
Australian Fires

NSW community collections

Gather
communities, collections, stories NSW

Endeavour | Collections

Endeavour 250 at  Natural Museum London

map

anu copyright free

Scandinavia research

Sweden cottages in Jamtland
visit Sweden
ecotourism 
natures best Sweden approved companies

Manchester Textiles Bedding etc

Weaving mills for Devonport Tasmania

Dinner service

Cook's dinner service in Stromness


‘Discovery’ and ‘Resolution’ called into Stromness in 1780 with 180 crewmen who were making their first British landfall after Cook had been killed in Hawaii during a four year voyage to find the northwest passage through the Bering straits.



Skaill House: dinner service, tea set, and spears from South Seas
Stromness Museum

spearhead from Balmanegarra Station noted as Arunta  

trees | the fires

Trees are at the heart of our country   Jakelin Troy

Strength from perpetual grief 
Bhiamie Williamson, Jessica Weir, Vanessa Cavanagh

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/06/for-first-nations-people-the-bushfires-bring-a-particular-grief-burning-what-makes-us-who-we-are


Balga
 

Stolen children: letters from

Elfie Shiosaki

Lecturer in Indigenous Rights, Policy and Governance, University of Western Australia 

Shiosaki finds the letters of her grandmother's grandfather, Noongar man Edward Harris.

‘I am anxious to have my children home’: recovering letters of love written for Noongar children

 

2020 Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize

National Photographic Portrait finalists 2020
National Portrait Gallery in Canberra NPG

the diminishment of hopes

Ian McEwan 
'...Consider instead the magic dust. How did a matter of such momentous constitutional, economic and cultural consequence come to be settled by a first-past-the-post vote and not by a super-majority? A parliamentary paper (see Briefing 07212) at the time of the 2015 Referendum Act hinted at the reason: because the referendum was merely advisory. It “enables the electorate to voice an opinion”. How did “advisory” morph into “binding”? By that blinding dust thrown in our eyes from right and left by populist hands.'

'Nearly two-thirds of the electorate did not vote to leave; most of business and the trade unions, agriculture, science, finance and the arts were against the Brexit project; three-quarters of MPs voted to remain. But our representatives ignored the evident public interest and shrank behind party cabals and “the people have spoken” – that bleak Soviet locution – followed by “get Brexit done”, the mind-clouding magic dust which has blinded reason and diminished our children’s prospects.'
The Guardian

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Dark Emu thinking

Bruce Pascoe essay The Griffith Review

Wood | Timber| Botanical collections

Jarrahdale archive

Salmon Gum  Eucalyptus salmonophloia

NSW / NZ reciprocal trade 


link to drawings at NLA

transportation

first fleet passenger manifest

this place I am confident was never seen or viseted by any European before

Possession: 22 August 1770
Cook Journal:
but in order to be better informd I land_^^ed with a party of Men accompan'd by M^r Banks and D^r Solander and land upon the Island which lies at the SE point of the Passage: before and after we landed ^Anchor'd we saw a number of People upon this Island arm'd in the same - manner as all the others we have seen except one man who had a bow and a bundle of Arrows   the first we have seen on this coast. from the appearence of these People we expected they would have opposed our landing but as we approached the Shore they all made off and left us in peaceable posession of as much of the Island as served our purpose.
....
Having satisfied myself of the great Probabillity of a Passage, thro' which I intend going with the Ship and there^for may land no more upon this Western Eastern coast of New Holland   and on the Western side I can make no new discovery the honour of which belongs to the Dutch Navigators and as such they may lay claim to it as their property but the Eastern Coast from the Latitude of 38° South down to this place I am confident was never seen or viseted by any European before _^^{us and} therefore by the same Rule belongs to great Brittan Notwithstand I had in the Name of his Majesty taken posession of several places upon this coast I now once more hoisted English Coulers and in the Name of His Majesty King George the Third took posession of the whole Eastern Coast from the above Latitude down to this place by the Name of New South _^^Wales together with all the Bays, Harbours Rivers and Islands situate upon the same ^said coast   after which we fired three Volleys of small Arms which were Answerd by the like number by ^from the Ship   this done we set out for the Ship but were some time in geting on board on accout of a very rappid Ebb Tide which set _^NE out of the Passage away to the NE   ever sence we came in among the Shoals this last time we have found a Moderate Tide the Flood seting to the NW and Ebb to the SE. at this place it is High-water at the Full and Change of the Moon about 1 or 2 o'Clock and riseth and falls upon a perpendicular about 10 or 12 feet. We saw on all the Adjacent Lands and Islands a great number of smooks a certain sign that they are Inhabited and we have dayly seen smooks on every part of the coast we have lately been upon — 

Hawksworth's account 21 August 1770
As I was now about to quit the eastern coast of New Holland, which I had coasted from latitude 38 to this place, and which I am confident no European had ever seen before, I once more hoisted English colours, and though I had already taken possession of several particular parts, I now took possession of the whole eastern coast, from latitude 38° to this place, latitude 10 ½ S. in right of his Majesty King George the Third, by the name of NEW SOUTH WALES, with all the bays, harbours, rivers, and islands situated upon it: we then fired three vollies of small arms, which were answered by the same number from the ship. Having performed this ceremony upon the island, which we called POSSESSION ISLAND, we reimbarked in our boat, but a rapid ebb tide setting N.E. made our return to the vessel very difficult and tedious.

Parkinson's Journal
on the 18th...
At length we came to, and the pinnace was sent on shore to a spot where we saw some of the natives stand gazing at us, but when the boats company landed, they immediately fled. fled. The captain, and some others, went up to the top of a hill, and, seeing a clear passage, they hoisted a jack, and fired a volley, which was answered by the marines below, and the marines by three vollies from the ship, and three cheers from the main shrouds. The natives were armed with lances, and one of them had a bow in his hand. In other respects they were much like the people we saw last

Rachel Perkins: The End of Silence | Boyer Lectures 2019

The End of Silence: The genesis of the Uluru statement 

The Boyer Lectures November 2019

Anna Atkins | cyanotype

born Kent 1799, Anna Atkins 
images