It is fascinating in the context of publicity and propaganda here by the GreenLeft/Albo/Govt around The Voice that nobody mentions(not that I have seen) that the arrival of the British First Fleet here in Jan 1788 tolled the bell for the end of The Stone Age lingering on across the wide brown great southern land and named New South Wales by the new settlers, now known as Australia.
The Stone Age and associated violence, horrors and hardships across the wide brown great southern land ended the day the British First Fleet landed here and started establishing a new society. Indigenous people could look forward to an improving standard of living and increased life expectancy as they participated in the development of the NSW Colony. The huge and globally historic improvements in living standards and life expectancy that emerged from the industrial revolution in Britain inevitably flowed through to the Colony of NSW.
“The Stone Age and associated violence, horrors and hardships across the wide brown great southern land ended the day the British First Fleet landed here and started establishing a new society. Indigenous people could look forward to an improving standard of living… ”
While that is true generally, Robert Hughes’ book The Fatal Shore reveals insane levels of brutality in the British penal system of the time too.
While it is true there were insane levels of brutality in the penal system, that eventually passed into history. The population outside in the real world of the colony of NSW had ended the Stone Age and was rapidly expanding and laying the foundations for modern Australia.
Uluru Statement From The Heart is after more than a decade of financial problems for the Ayres Rock Resort see my list of multiple story links.
www.warwickhughes.com/agri16/Ayres-Rock-Resort14jun23.html
I am suggesting the Uluru Statement From The Heart was in part a diversionary tactic.
Ayres Rock Resort looks now to be ~$200Mill in debt ~equally to ANZ Bank & Govt.
Good heavens. I thought the British “invasion” had only brought misery and prior to that the First Nations lived in an Eden of milk and honey. I must be reading the wrong reports.