Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Sunday, 23 February 2020
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Dinner service
‘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
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
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
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
Saturday, 15 February 2020
Stolen children: letters from
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
Tuesday, 4 February 2020
Sunday, 2 February 2020
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
'...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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