Australia Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/australia/ Arts and African History Mon, 19 Dec 2016 13:18:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Pemulwuy https://consciousness.co.za/pemulwuy/ https://consciousness.co.za/pemulwuy/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:15:53 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12074 Pemulwuy was a courageous resistance fighter who led a guerrilla war against the British settlement at Sydney Cove from 1788 through to 1802. Because of his resistance to the invaders, he became one of the most remembered and written about historical figures in Australian Aboriginal history. Pemulwuy was a Bidjigal man from the Botany Bay [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/pemulwuy/feed/ 0 Invasion, Theft, Rape, Murder: The Aboriginal Holocaust in Tasmania https://consciousness.co.za/invasion-theft-rape-murder-aboriginal-holocaust-tasmania/ https://consciousness.co.za/invasion-theft-rape-murder-aboriginal-holocaust-tasmania/#respond Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:47:11 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=8258 originally posted on AtlantaBlackStar.com DEDICATED TO TRUGANINI To many, the mention of Tasmania evokes humorous recollections of the Tasmanian devil–the voracious marsupial popularized in American cartoons.   But, I assure you, there is a much more harsh reality for Tasmania.  Tasmania is an island slightly larger in size than West Virginia, and is located two-hundred miles [...]

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