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  1. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Rabbits are the biggest threat to Australia’s native species. Why are their numbers booming again?

    “They can get to incredible numbers and you see the whole landscape gets denuded."

    "Though they were introduced on the first fleet during the British invasion in 1788, research has traced the species’ continent-wide spread to one consignment of 24 rabbits brought in to the country by settler Thomas Austin in 1859."

    "By the 1920s, rabbits had reached plague proportions with estimates numbering them in their billions. More recent counts put the current population at closer to 200 million but the true number is unknown as there is no formal monitoring.Their impact on the landscape has been measured. One study found rabbits were having negative effects on 329 threatened species in Australia – more than any other invasive pest."

    “Peri-urban areas have become a breeding ground because it is more difficult to have people control them there, mainly because the rabbits can be under buildings, for example, or in gardens." >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #biodiversity #wildlife #pests #EuropeanLegacy #CoffsHarbour #PeriUrbanAreas #pets #NSW #SettlerSociety
    #Image: Pet bunny with own real estate at Charlesworth Bay, Coffs Harbour. Many (ex-pet) rabbits hopping around the CBD.

    #biodiversity #wildlife #pests #europeanlegacy #coffsharbour #periurbanareas
  2. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    "Public lands belong to all of us. No one should plunder those lands for profit."
    "A planned dismantling of everything."

    "Trump’s plan to sell off a part of Yosemite is what oligarchy looks like." - Rebecca Solnit

    "The Trump administration’s ruthless efforts to turn over public lands for mining and logging and fossil fuel exploitation while it also dismantles the US Forest Service and National Park Service is about turning long-term wellbeing for the many, human and more than human, into short-term profit for an elite."

    "To give away a piece of land is one form of harm to the parks, to take away the park’s workers, whose labors protect endangered species, waterways and land, prevent fires and provide public services from search and rescue operations to education to clean restrooms is another." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #biodiversity #conservation #NationalParks #FastTrack #redistribution #FirstNationsPeoples #SacredSites #SettlerSociety #NPWS

    #biodiversity #conservation #nationalparks #fasttrack #redistribution #firstnationspeoples
  3. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Mowing down children and the racist feeding frenzy that followed.
    Alabama in the 1930s?

    "* Two children, who were riding a motorised pushbike and left with serious injuries, were allegedly pursued and mowed down by 56-year-old Gol Gol man Andrew Brien.."

    "Mr Brien allegedly pursued the children through the pedestrian-only mall in the belief they were involved in vandalism at his partner's real estate business. However, the court heard the children were "blameless" of any offending on the night."

    "The amount and volume of racist and violent comments surged after the incident, with hundreds of social media posts laying blame on the boys and praising the driver."

    "The act alone was shocking, but what followed on social media revealed a distressing and damaging ugliness...What we've seen lately in terms of social media is that anger is coming out in really primal responses, in ideas and thoughts and beliefs which do not have a place in a civilised society."

    "It is not OK to hurt children. It is never OK to hurt children. It's not OK to call this man a hero."

    "No-one should see violence against their children or community being celebrated or joked about...I don't want to see comments that I think would be better placed in 1930s Alabama". >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-21/mil

    * "A 24-year-old hit and run driver who injured two pedestrians, one of them fatally, sped away and then bragged about it to his friends has been spared jail time in Darwin."
    ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsRPw3srQeg
    #children #cars #violence #dehumanisation #racism #harm #UTEs #motorists #pedestrians #malls #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #incivility #SocialMedia #hate #governance

    #children #cars #violence #dehumanisation #racism #harm
  4. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    What is driving racism, hate and violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?

    * "The Voice campaign...brought racism many First Nations people experience daily to the fore."

    A parliamentary inquiry "follows several violent incidents, including the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne in August 2025 (and importantly, a new attack on August 2 2026), and the alleged attempted bombing of an Invasion Day rally in Perth."

    "At public hearings around the country, First Nations people and organisations have described racism in workplaces, schools, public institutions and online. They have also warned racist abuse is becoming more open, more organised and easier to spread."

    "...Political campaigns don’t just reflect existing prejudice. They can create moments when hostile ideas become easier to express, repeat and share.Around Anzac Day and the March for Australia, more than 96% of the hate detected directly targeted First Nations identity. White supremacist claims (that is, posts implying or explicitly asserting the superiority of White, settler or European Australians) and dehumanising language made up almost 90% of the total hateful posts.Around March for Australia alone, white supremacy accounted for 69% of detected hate."

    "The findings show something important: online hate follows recognisable patterns. It builds around political campaigns, public controversies and events connected with national identity."

    "The parliamentary inquiry now has an opportunity to move from recognising the problem to acting on the evidence. " >>
    theconversation.com/what-three

    * Understanding Anti First Nations Hate Online in Australia report >>
    tacklinghate.org/lab-insights/
    #FirstNations #dehumanisation #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #NationalIdentity #racism #hostility #referendum #TheVoice #hate #TacklingHate #IndigenousPeoples #experience #SettlerSociety #violence

    #ethnonationalism #dehumanisation #whitesupremacy #nationalidentity #racism #hostility
  5. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Have you at any time... rewritten the settler narrative?
    Foundational narratives facing the murder board

    “When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don’t mean erasing it...We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects, that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.” >>
    apnews.com/article/smithsonian

    Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past
    youtube.com/watch?v=961Mclohmi

    #SettlerSociety #ethnonationalism #AmericanDream #FoundationalNarratives #ReshapeThePast #history #museum #culture #diversity #examination #MurderBoard #zeitgeist

    #settlersociety #ethnonationalism #americandream #foundationalnarratives #reshapethepast #history
  6. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    The #Land Lord's Game

    Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
    Don't fence me in
    Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
    Don't fence me in...

    * Australia's housing market >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/com

    * Rentierism
    describes an economic or political system where individuals, corporations, or even governments generate wealth by controlling and extracting "rents" from scarce assets, rather than by creating new products or services

    * Financialisation
    "is the process by which financial markets, institutions, and motives gain increasing influence over the broader economy, society, and corporate decision-making. It represents a shift from an industrial economy—where profits are generated primarily by producing goods and services—toward one driven by financial engineering, speculation, and wealth.

    * Expansionism
    Go West - Westward movement refers to the historic 19th-century migration of American settlers to the Pacific coast. Driven by "Manifest Destiny". Colonialism is the physical practice of establishing settlements and taking direct political control over a foreign territory,

    * Nazis moving into foreign territories (eastern Europe) looking for "Living space" (Lebensraum)

    * 'Boundaries bursting" #globalisation - Leaving the "safe operating space" of planet Earth.

    Don't fence me in | Bing Crosby & Te Andrew Sisters (Lyrics) >>
    youtube.com/watch?v=G84dJHgLE-4
    #land #ThePropertyGame #CommonWealth #housing #AffordableHousing #rentierism #inequality #extractivism #mining #housing #monopoly #speculation #wealth #expansionism #WideOpenSpaces #Europeancolonisation #SettlerSociety #PlantetarianBoundaries #ethnonationalism #xenophobia #IndigenousPeoples

    #wideopenspaces #land #globalisation #thepropertygame #housing #affordablehousing
  7. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    "The town capitalists and plantation patriarchs are in the saddle – while our revolutionary inheritance, Paine’s “universal struggle for liberty”, awaits its next reinvention."

    ""Emancipation and expansion are twin pillars of the American revolutionary narrative."

    "Rather than finding new sources for expansion – moral or material – our American age is one of attrition and low expectations, small yards, high fences, new trade barriers, rising mid-life mortality, border walls and prison bars."

    The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int
    #expansion #empire #EuropeanColonisation #FoundationalNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #dispossession #SettlerSociety #AmericanDream #systemic #inequality #EthicalInfrastructure #emancipation

    #expansion #empire #europeancolonisation #foundationalnarratives #indigenouspeoples #dispossession
  8. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    From Gold Rush to Green Rush
    The environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation

    * "Professor Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) argues that the state's booming cannabis industry can be situated squarely within other extractive settler colonial enterprises such as gold mining and overfishing."

    “The real gold is not gold, after all, but the land itself”

    Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023) >>
    read.dukeupress.edu/agricultur

    * Reed "connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people."

    "Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands."
    degruyterbrill.com/de/document

    #cannabis #extractivism #agriculture #logging #overfishing #BackToTheLand #counterculture #GreenIdyll #SettlerSociety #GoldRush #GreenRush #CannabisIndustry #water #pollution #disposession #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples
    Image: Country idyll with river

    #extractivism #cannabis #agriculture #logging #overfishing #backtotheland
  9. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Oh no, not the bison again

    The Trump Administration’s Latest Target: This Woolly American Icon >
    motherjones.com/politics/2026/

    The Forest Service “Reorganizes” Under Trump
    newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th

    Image: Photograph from 1892 of a pile of American bison skulls in Detroit (MI) waiting to be ground for fertilizer or charcoal. Wikipedia

    #biodiversity #conservation #bison #wildlife #LandManagement #CattleGrazing #forests #LoggingIndustry #Pastoralism #extraction #nature #SoonHereToo #SettlerSociety #meat

    #biodiversity #conservation #bison #wildlife #landmanagement #cattlegrazing
  10. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Illumination in dark times
    A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

    "Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

    " “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

    * Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
    harpers.org/archive/2026/04/th

    * Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
    penguinrandomhouse.com/books/1
    #TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

    Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

    #thewest #whitesupremacy #masculinity #ethnonationalism #westerncivilization #angloamerican
  11. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Social cohesion and gritted-teeth tolerance

    "In 2022, for the first time in decades, the government commissioned a review of multiculturalism, Towards Fairness. It found Australia had muddled on, but squandered its world-leading status and recommended the government create a minister, a permanent commission and department for multiculturalism. Labor MP Dr Anne Aly was appointed multicultural affairs minister in 2025."

    She delivered a powerful speech last November:

    "Aly declared it was time to end “the conditional form of multiculturalism, that kind of gritted-teeth tolerance that,

    'You are welcome here as long as your food tastes good,

    your celebrations are colourful, and

    your music is present to the ears.’"

    "But any questioning, any speaking out, any disruptive participation in any practice of citizenship will not be tolerated. Instead, acts of citizenship afforded to the broader community are viewed as acts of defiance when performed by the other and are met with cries of, ‘Go back to where you came from,’ and ‘Love Australia or leave it.’ " >>
    theguardian.com/society/ng-int

    Full speech: Reimagining Multiculturalism in Australia, The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Minister for Small Business, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs 2025 >>
    ministers.treasury.gov.au/mini

    #SocialCohesion #ethnonationalism #Anglosphere #SettlerSociety #mainstream #belonging #diversity #IndigenousPeoples #CALD #hate #racism #silencing #culture #entertainment #SongAndDance #ScarilyDiverse #representation #participation #Australia #culture

    #socialcohesion #ethnonationalism #anglosphere #settlersociety #mainstream #belonging
  12. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Americana meets the Aussie bush

    Trying to get some bread in a cafe on Bellingen's main drag. Once the obstacle course of the packs of dogs on extendable leads are overcome it is time for waiting in a long queue on a Saturday. Many hipster families are there to have breakfast done for them.

    One set was showcasing their three toddlers in a full 'American Western-inspired aesthetic', cowboy hats and boots. Mum had that Instagrammable ‘Mar-a-Lago face’.

    Wide-brimmed hats are ideal to protect oneself from Australia's sun, but this was in the comfort zone of a cafe.

    The "cowboy core" aesthetic facade harks back to the wide‑open‑spaces where cattle-herders (cowboys, stockmen/ringers) managed grazing livestock, for the pastoral industry, particularly in the Australian outback or American Western frontier.

    Already in the 16th century, the Conquistadors and other Spanish settlers brought their cattle-raising traditions to Mexico and Florida.

    The Western portrayed the cowboy as an enduring cultural figure representing freedom.

    So why are these urban folks from the suburbs running around in 'costumes' looking like pastoralist workers from a mythical past? What 'sense of belonging' do they buy?

    Maybe the fashionable habitus points to a vibe shift of the wannabe cowboys expressing preemptive subordination or imperial obsequiousness?

    The rise of cowboy core: What's behind it.>>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-03-10/dr-

    Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’:
    theguardian.com/society/2025/n

    Image :
    In 1859 European wild rabbits were introduced into Australia so they could be hunted for sport. Now hats are made out of some of the invasive species.
    nma.gov.au/defining-moments/re

    #cowboys #pastoralism #SettlerSociety #fashion #WesternWear #CattleHerders #belonging #Bellingen #culture #MiddlePowers #subordination #RupturedGlobalOrder #BellingenObservations

    #cowboys #pastoralism #settlersociety #fashion #westernwear #cattleherders
  13. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    'English First' policies and
    the uncomfortable waning of empire

    * “The English Language Bill demonstrated that New Zealand First was "trying to appeal to a racist fringe". Professor O'Sullivan >
    abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/new

    * "The English-only movement...is a political movement that advocates for the exclusive use of the English language in official United States government communication through the establishment of English as the only official language in the United States." >
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-

    * “Australia is home to over 250 distinct Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, comprising around 800 dialects, which are deeply connected to specific land, culture, and identity.” >
    alt.nsw.gov.au/learn/nsw-abori

    * 'Scarily diverse' people from First Nations or from a culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
    theconversation.com/a-shadow-o

    * "Monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language." >
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoling

    #EnglishLanguage #EnglishFirst #language #LanguagePolicies #monolingualism #MonolingualMindset #diverse #polyglots #MultilingualPeople #NormativeMonolingualism #ForcedAssimilation #settlersociety #Anglophones #FirstNationsPeoples #Gumbaynggirr

    #englishlanguage #englishfirst #language #languagepolicies #monolingualism #monolingualmindset
  14. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Big Quarry Literature and Settlers Caught on Screen
    The complex anxiety of quarry noir

    "We dig holes in Australia...It’s what we do. It’s all we’ve ever done, we’re just the world’s quarry, an enormous pit, ever since we struck gold a hundred and fifty years ago." >>
    theconversation.com/friday-ess

    "Dr James Finlay reflects on how Australia’s convict past has been represented on screen, tracing shifts from early cinematic melodrama through to television drama and contemporary film, and considering how these visual narratives continue to shape national memory." >>
    podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/

    James Findlay, Caught on Screen, Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television, 2025 >>
    bloomsbury.com/au/caught-on-sc

    #mining #extractivism #Literature #film #screen #culture #SettlerSociety #convicts #history #Australia #fiction #narratives #QuarryNoir #BigQuarry #books #NationalAnxiety #criminality #FirstNationsPeoples

    #mining #extractivism #literature #film #culture #settlersociety
  15. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    * The White Nationalist Agenda, the "missing white voter" and hate mongering
    abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/ste

    * "Jean Guerrero, Hate Monger, a book that investigated the making of Miller. Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House."
    npr.org/2020/08/24/905403716/h

    * The Apparatus of Whiteness, Linda Martín Alcoff »Cultural Racism« (2/3) Adorno Lecture >>
    youtube.com/watch?v=RhUu9nCzxvs
    #hate #immigration #WhiteRage #Whiteness #settlersociety #EthnoNationalism #TheWest #modernity #whitesupremacists #CulturalRacism #EthnoEssentialism #SocialCohesion #SocialFabric

    #hate #immigration #whiterage #whiteness #settlersociety #ethnonationalism
  16. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    The fig leaves have been dropped

    "The US Department of Homeland Security used the image with the heading "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending" in a post on social media in August 2025."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American

    Origins of Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist Terms and Symbols
    ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is

    Image: John Gast, American Progress, The "Spirit of the Frontier" 1872
    #ManifestDestiny #SettlerSociety #expansion #empire #progress #BloodAndSoil #WhiteSupremacists #EthnoNationalism #monoculture #FirstNationsPeoples #biodiversity

    #manifestdestiny #settlersociety #expansion #empire #progress #bloodandsoil
  17. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    March for Australia: "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi" - "send them back"

    "Anti-immigration rallies take place in major cities across Australia."
    abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/mar
    #Australia #SettlerSociety #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #EverydayPatriots #AustraliaFirst

    Image: Hundreds attended a March for Australia rally in Sydney, marching from Prince Alfred Park to Moore Park. (ABC News)

    #australia #settlersociety #farright #ethnonationalism #everydaypatriots #australiafirst
  18. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Truth-telling and justice

    * “I can understand how Corowa is now known as the place where we have 40 neo-Nazis march up and down our main street on a Saturday morning. Now we’re starting to remove flags. I can understand how someone can see it cascading.”
    A regional NSW council voted to remove the Aboriginal flag to promote ‘unity’ – it did the opposite >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    * "The rise in voting support for One Nation, which mirrors the success of populist politicians in the United States and United Kingdom, provides further evidence of the rise of a more hardline, right-wing populism, which often celebrates rather than questions the history of European imperialism.”
    >>
    Opposition to moving Australia Day from January 26 is hardening: new research
    theconversation.com/opposition

    * "People don't understand that the current policies are still embedded in their colonial roots.” >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/tru

    #PostReferendum #zeitgeist #SettlerSociety #FirstNationsPeoples #WhitePrivilege #WhiteSupremacy #EuropeanColonialism #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #dehumanisation #Empire #Australia #equality #governance #NSW #TruthTelling

    Image: NSW North Coast tribal boundaries, Tindale's map 1974

    #postreferendum #zeitgeist #settlersociety #firstnationspeoples #whiteprivilege #whitesupremacy
  19. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    One of Australia’s foundational narratives: Burke and Wills died as heroes
    Settlers with a poor sense of direction.

    “But Burke … had been born and bred a member of the ruling race in a conquered country [Ireland] and could not bring himself to associate with the natives. When they arrived in his camp bearing gifts of fish, he behaved like an officer of the Irish constabulary plagued by the peasantry, and fired at them.... Burke and Wills died of starvation."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news
    #SettlerSociety #FirstNationsPeoples #bushfood #MythScape

    #settlersociety #firstnationspeoples #bushfood #mythscape
  20. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
    Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

    * First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
    phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-pu

    * Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
    press.princeton.edu/books/hard

    #territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

    #narratives #territory #maps #borders #expansion #promisedland
  21. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    "Members of the National Socialist Network, a group of neo-Nazis who promote deporting 'non-white' Australians, said they intended to register a political party, after about 60 members rallied outside NSW Parliament on Saturday." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-11-12/no-
    #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #Australia #FarRight #SettlerSociety #monoculture

    #whitesupremacy #ethnonationalism #australia #farright #settlersociety #monoculture
  22. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    The dangers of rural extremist enclaves

    "Thin policing and limited services in remote areas compound these concerns. Regional officers are often spread thinly across vast distances. Programs designed to counter violent extremism, or even provide basic mental health and social support, are far less available outside metropolitan centres. This leaves rural communities with fewer buffers against dangerous ideologies. As a sense of victimhood is strongly associated with radicalisation, equally important is the perceived injustices often felt by rural communities. When communities feel ignored or disparaged, extremist narratives take root. "

    "Policies that visibly invest in rural infrastructure, health, and digital connectivity, often key rural concerns, are not just good economics, they can strengthen and integrate rural communities."
    >>
    theconversation.com/far-right-
    #EthnoNationalism #rural #RuralCommunities #vulnerability #WhiteSupremacy #SettlerSociety #PhenotypicAppearance #exclusion

    #ethnonationalism #rural #ruralcommunities #vulnerability #whitesupremacy #settlersociety
  23. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

    “This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
    Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
    >>
    c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
    #TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

    #truthtelling #settlersociety #violence #colonialism #conspiracyofsilence #frontier
  24. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

    “This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
    Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
    >>
    c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
    #TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

    #truthtelling #settlersociety #violence #colonialism #conspiracyofsilence #frontier
  25. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

    “This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
    Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
    >>
    c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
    #TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

    #truthtelling #settlersociety #violence #colonialism #conspiracyofsilence #frontier
  26. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

    “This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
    Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
    >>
    c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
    #TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

    #australia #indigenouspeoples #contemporaneityofthenoncontemporaneous #resourcefrontiers #frontier #conspiracyofsilence
  27. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

    “This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
    Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
    >>
    c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
    #TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

    #truthtelling #settlersociety #violence #colonialism #conspiracyofsilence #frontier
  28. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Culturally modified trees in New South Wales

    "In NSW, scarred, marked and ring trees are protected under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, but trees-in-trees are not recognised as "culturally modified trees". Trees-in-trees" are tree species growing out of another tree species, often with stone-axe cut marks visible around the guest tree's graft. All trees have an identity, they have roles and responsibilities in the family unit, like people...They have their own spirit, like people...What makes them unusual is that neither species is an epiphyte: the type of plant that grows on another plant but is sustained by airborne nutrients...These are living cultural memory embodied in trees. All over Australia, trees have been modified by Aboriginal people but are vanishing due to logging, agricultural expansion and urban sprawl. Land clearing is a really big concern."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2024-11-09/cul

    Culturally modified trees by settler society:
    Trees are regularly butchered to make way for power lines.
    abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/tre
    abc.net.au/news/2022-10-18/pru
    #trees #FirstNationsPeoples #water #NSW #entanglement #relationality #IntraAction #IndigenousKnowledge #SettlerSociety #culture #sprawl #logging #energy #PowerLines

    #trees #firstnationspeoples #water #nsw #entanglement #relationality
  29. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Nobel prize for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
    500 years of European colonialism, extractivism and the resource curse

    "Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal weighs against a view that links economic development to geographic factors. Instead, we argue that the reversal reflects changes in the institutions resulting from European colonialism. The European intervention appears to have created an “institutional reversal” among these societies, meaning that Europeans were more likely to introduce institutions encouraging investment in regions that were previously poor. This institutional reversal accounts for the reversal in relative incomes. We provide further support for this view by documenting that the reversal in relative incomes took place during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and resulted from societies with good institutions taking advantage of the opportunity to industrialize."
    >>
    Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 117, Issue 4, November 2002, Pages 1231–1294 (PDF>)
    economics.mit.edu/sites/defaul
    #colonialism #extractivism #SettlerSociety #IndigenousPeoples #SocialRelations #PE #economics #democracy #RuleOfLaw #AuthoritarianRegime #populism #corruption #goverance #reforms #distrust #UnevenDevelopment #democracy #institutions #ResourceCurse #nobel

    #colonialism #extractivism #indigenouspeoples #socialrelations #pe #economics
  30. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    "Indigenous people here speak of the lack of memorials on this land.
    But every bordered property is a site for dark tourism in Australia.
    Dark tourism is the effort to seek out destinations of violence and devastation, but it is not hard to see genocide from our front door in this country...Tim Rowse has called the “ongoing colonial encounter sometimes called ‘Australia’”
    >>
    theconversation.com/dark-touri

    Gumbaynggirr Country is located on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. It is also known as the Bellingen/ Gleniffer Valley and has curated three reserves in the 21st century with memorials which are all named after white settlers:

    The Arthur Keough Reserve (Never Never River) is named after the first settler pioneer families to arrive in the Gleniffer Valley.
    bellingennow.com/about/index.h

    Angel Gabriel Capararo 'modernised' the Promised land.
    bellingennow.com/Angel_Gabriel

    Earl Preston reserve was named after a settler who arrived in 1929
    bellingennow.com/Earl_Preston/

    Nothing about the massacres and the poisoning to death of local Aboriginal people.

    Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1788 to 1930
    c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
    howlinginfinite.com/2021/03/22
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/art
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_poi
    #GumbaynggirrCountry #Bellingen #Fernmount #Gleniffer #TheDrive #MidNorthCoast #IndigenousPeoples #massacres #memorials #tourism #DarkTourism #violence #TuthTelling #denial #SettlerSociety #colonialism

    #gumbaynggirrcountry #bellingen #fernmount #gleniffer #thedrive #midnorthcoast
  31. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Koalas

    "After European colonization in 1788, more species have become extinct in Australia than in any other country on Earth (Australian Government Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, 2022)."

    In 2020, the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koalas found that koalas will become extinct before 2050. Why?

    Habitat grab, cars and dogs
    "Koalas who had been attacked by a dog, fallen from a tree, and/or been hit by a motor vehicle were more likely to be euthanized or found deceased than released."
    >>
    Charalambous, R., Descovich, K. A., & Narayan, E. J. (2024). Identifying Trends in Admission and Release of Wild Koalas in Veterinary Clinics Throughout Queensland, Australia. Society & Animals (published online ahead of print 2024).
    doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10
    #koalas #Bellingen #Gleniffer #roads #dogs #pets #GlenifferRoad #RosesRoad #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #SettlerSociety #BiodiversityCrisis #Ecocide #ExtinctionCrisis #EPBCAct

    #koalas #bellingen #gleniffer #roads #dogs #pets
  32. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Black Witness, Amy McQuire’s book delivers a critique of the way mainstream media operates

    "Amy McQuire has been writing on Indigenous affairs since she was 17 years old. Over the past two decades, she has reported on most of the key events involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including numerous deaths in custody, the Palm Island uprising, the Bowraville murders and the Northern Territory Intervention. She has also exposed the misrepresentations and violence of the mainstream media’s reports, as well as their omissions and silences altogether in regards to Indigenous matters."
    >>
    uqp.com.au/books/black-witness

    Review by Matthew Ricketson, professor of communication at Deakin University
    theconversation.com/is-objecti

    McQuire currently co-hosts Curtain The Podcast
    curtainthepodcast.wordpress.co
    #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples #Bowraville #violence #journalism #MSM #MediaBias #AgendasSetting #framing #Injustice #SettlerSociety

    #firstnationspeoples #indigenouspeoples #bowraville #violence #journalism #msm
  33. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Bigambul and Kamilaroi artist Archie Moore wins the Golden Lion at the 60th Venice Biennale

    "Country is more than just a setting, it's a collaborative partner and "this sense of belonging [is] deeply rooted in the landscape from birth until death. Aboriginal kinship systems include all living things from the environment in a larger network of relatedness, the land itself can be a mentor or a parent to a child. We are all one and share a responsibility of care to all living things now and into the future."

    To Moore, "it signals that — at least in the 14th century — English people thought about their connection to land in the same way as First Nations people still do today."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2024-04-29/ven
    #Country #care #FirstNationsPeoples #incarceration #SettlerSociety #VeniceBiennale

    #country #care #firstnationspeoples #incarceration #settlersociety #venicebiennale
  34. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Bellingen without the forests?
    bellingenarea.blogspot.com/202
    #BellingenShire #Bellingen #MasterPlan #BellingenLogging #Biodiversity #Logging #LoggingIndustry #destruction #LoggingImpacts #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #Gleniffer #GumbaynggirrCountry #SettlerSociety #CarDependency

    #bellingenshire #bellingen #masterplan #bellingenlogging #biodiversity #logging
  35. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Killing for Country

    " ‘I can’t argue away the shame’: frontier violence and family history converge in David Marr’s harrowing and important new book"

    "A monumental study of the on-the-ground nature of colonisation in New South Wales and Queensland... His forebears’ role in murdering scores of First Peoples during the land grabs that preceded the creation of Australia."

    "At the core of this narrative is a simple truism of colonialism: land is the ultimate commodity, the raw material."
    >>
    theconversation.com/i-cant-arg
    #TruthTelling #colonialism #Australia #frontier #violence #SettlerSociety #FamilyTruthTelling #families #NSW #Queensland #archives #trove #book #FirstNationsPeoples #FrontierWars

    #frontierwars #truthtelling #australia #frontier #violence #families