BigOl64 wrote on Jul 19^th, 2016 at 10:55am:



look out, the other village idiot is here.

WHo said they're ALL wonderful people? I wouldn't say that about any race or religion. I take people at face value, not based on what someone else who shared their religion or skin colour may have done on the other side of the globe or country.

BigOl64 wrote on Jul 19^th, 2016 at 10:55am:



look out, the other village idiot is here.

WHo said they're ALL wonderful people? I wouldn't say that about any race or religion. I take people at face value, not based on what someone else who shared their religion or skin colour may have done on the other side of the globe or country.

rhino wrote on Jul 19^th, 2016 at 11:47am:

According to the last census numbers you're wrong, many people ( around a third)are not stupid enough to believe in fairies in the sky, it doesn't surprise me that you are though.
If you don't like living in a secular society( as Australia is) leave, we'd be better off without bible bashing nutters that lower the IQ levels.

Squire wrote on Jul 19^th, 2016 at 10:27am:
Like these people you mean?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myall_Creek_massacre

Reasons and consequences[edit]
The importance of Myall Creek massacre is mainly political, as this was the only massacre of its kind in colonial Australian history after which some white people were brought to justice and subsequently executed. Myall Creek massacre was by no means outstanding in terms of numbers killed, it was simply just one of many massacres that took place in that district (the Liverpool Plains) around that time. There were also many other massacres that took place right across the colony of New South Wales as it expanded across more and more Aboriginal land. As elsewhere in the colony, the Aborigines at times put up resistance to the invasion of their land by spearing sheep and cattle for food and sometimes attacking the stockmen's huts and killing the white men. In the Liverpool Plains district there had been some cattle speared and huts attacked and two whites murdered (allegedly by Aborigines). The squatters complained to the acting Governor Snodgrass who sent Major James Nunn and about twenty-two troopers up to the district. Nunn enlisted the assistance of up to twenty-five local stockmen and together they rode around the district rounding up and slaughtering any Aborigines they came across. Nunn's campaign culminated in the Australia Day Massacre of 1838 at Waterloo Creek. As there are no definitive historical records available it is impossible to accurately determine the exact number of Aborigines who were slaughtered there but estimates range from forty to over one hundred.

When Nunn returned to Sydney, many of the local squatters and stockmen continued the "drive" against the Aborigines. The perpetrators of the Myall Creek massacre were some who continued that relentless slaughter. The Aborigines killed at Myall Creek were not involved in any of the spearing of cattle or the attacks on stockmen's huts that were occurring elsewhere as they had been living peacefully on McIntyre's and Wiseman's stations for many months prior to moving to Myall Creek. They simply got caught up with the colonist's desires to drive them off their land so they could continue with the expansion of the colony.

In his book, Blood on the Wattle, journalist Bruce Elder says that the successful prosecutions resulted in pacts of silence becoming a common practice to avoid sufficient evidence becoming available for future prosecutions.[18] Another effect, as one contemporary Sydney newspaper reported, was that poisoning Aborigines became more common as "a safer practice".[this quote needs a citation] Many massacres were to go unpunished due to these practices,[18] as what is variously called a 'conspiracy' or 'pact' or 'code' of silence fell over the killings of Aborigines.

The Myall Creek massacre and the subsequent trial and hanging of some of the offenders had a profound effect on the "outside" settlers and their dealing with indigenous people throughout all sections the colonial Australian frontiers. The Sydney Morning Herald and the spokesmen of the settlers in the remote district of New South Wales and Victoria frequently leading men such as William Charles Wentworth typically classified the trial and execution of the offenders as "judicial murder".[37] No different in Queensland, the most populated section of the continent in terms of indigenous people. Thus it was the subject of numerous statements in the then newly separated parliament in 1861, during which there was almost unanimous agreement that the prosecution and hanging in 1838 had been nothing less than '...judicial murder of white men in Sydney', as the government spokesman Robert Ramsay Mackenzie phrased it in his speech in the Legislative Assembly on 25 July 1861, and that 'white troopers were "useless" as they could not be "acting against the blackfellows as they wished, lest an outcry should be raised against them, and they could be prosecuted for murder". Arthur Macalister, spokesman for the opposition (later three times Premier of Queensland) agreed, equally using the term "judicial murder." The notion seemingly almost unanimously agreed to by the first Queensland parliament was that no white man should ever be prosecuted in Queensland for the killing of a black.

Botany Bay December, 1790
Governor Arthur Phillip issued an order for "a party of two captains, two subalterns and forty privates, with a proper number of non-commissioned officers from the garrison to bring in six of those natives who reside near the head of Botany Bay; or, if that number shall be found impracticable, to put that number to death".
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2      The Black War 1800's
'The Black War refers' to a period of intermittent conflict between the British colonists, whalers and sealers including those of the American sealing fleet and Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) in the early years of the 19th century. The conflict has been described as a genocide resulting in the elimination of the full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal population.
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3      Myall Creek June 10, 1838
30 to 40 defenceless Aboriginal people were hacked and slashed to death. They were beheaded and their headless bodies were left where they fell untill two days later when they were burned. The stockmen's killing spree ended with camp of drinking and bragging about their killings. They then set out to find the ten Aboriginal people they had missed. They found them the next day and murdered most of them.More: Creative Spirits
4      The Bathurst Massacres 1922 to 1924
Fighting began on an organised scale early in 1822, when an important leader of the Wiradjuri named Windradyne was captured by British soldiers. During 1823 there was a series of raids carried out by the Wiradjuri war party including scattering and spearing the livestock which were eating the animal food sources of the region. In most cases the Aboriginals raided targeted known enemies who had killed, raped or robbed Wiradjuri people. Early in June 1824, the troops of the 2nd Somerst Regiment moved out from Bathurst to confront Windradyne and his warriors and in late May and mid June 1824. It is estimated in the book "Six Australian Battlefields" by Al Grassby and Marji Hill, that one third of the entire population of Bathurst, perhaps more than 1000 men, women and children, perished.
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5      Mowla Bluff 1916
In the Kimberley, Western Australia, a station manager was particularly brutal and abusive, including sexually, causingss the tempers of the men in the tribe to boil over. Some of them gave the station manager a beating and a spear wound. In reprisal a group of settlers, vigilantes and officials, rounded up a large number of Aboriginal men, women and children and massacred them. The victims were shot and their bodies burned to conceal the crime. It is believed that up to 300 people were killed in this massacre.
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6      Noorat Victoria 1839
Europeans first settled the Noorat area in early 1839 when MacKillop and Smith established a run called Strathdownie - which was renamed Glenormiston by Niel Black, who purchased the property in 1840. Prior to European settlement, the area near Mount Noorat was a traditional meeting site where Indigenous tribes - the Kirrae Wuurong people - held ceremonies, bartered goods and settled disputes. By 1841, the population of the Mount Noorat clan numbered only four people. An outbreak of small pox during the 1830's was one cause of the population decline but the massacre of Indigenous people by white settlers was another. One of the worst massacres in the western district of Victoria allegedly occurred along Mount Emu Creek (pic near Noorat in August 1839. This was seemingly verified by Niel Black, who found a mass grave on the Glenormiston property.
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7      Cape Grim February 10, 1828
A massacre occurred in the North West of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), when four shepherds with musket guns are alleged to have ambushed over 30 Tasmanian Aborigines from the Pennemukeer band from Cape Grim, killing 30 and throwing their bodies over a 60 metre cliff into the sea. An unknown number were reported to have escaped. The hill where the massacre occurred was then called Victory Hill by the shepherds.
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8      Gippsland 1800 - 1860
The Aboriginal people of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, known as the Gunai/Kurnai people, fought against the European invasion of their land. The technical superiority of the Europeans' weapons gave the Europeans an absolute advantage. At least 300 people were killed, but other figures estimate up to 1,000, however it is extremely difficult to be certain about the real death toll as so few records still exist or were even made at the time. Diseases introduced from the 1820s by European sealers and whalers also caused a rapid decline in Aboriginal numbers.
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9      Coniston 1800 - 1860
Aug 14th - Oct 18th, 1928
The Massacre(s) took place near the Coniston cattle station, Northern Territory. This was the last known massacre of Indigenous Australians. People of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye groups were killed. The massacre occurred in revenge for the death of dingo hunter, Frederick Brooks, supposedly killed by Aborigines in August 1928 at a place now known as Yukurru, (also Brooks Soak). Official records stated that thirty-one people were killed. Another report states that are least twice that number were killed. Historians estimate that 60 to 110 Aboriginal people were killed. The Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye believe that up to 170 died.
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10      The Convincing Ground (Near Portland) 1833 or 1834
The Convincing Ground (near Portland) is probably the first and largest recorded massacre site...

skippy. wrote on Jul 19^th, 2016 at 12:14pm:
one third may not describe themselves as Christian, however that leaves 2 thirds, even a fool like you should be able to understand thats a majority. Secondly out of that allegedly non Christian one third a substantial majority of those come from as western background with Christian values. If you dont like it, bad luck. Live somewhere else. This is a christian country and that is not defined by how many people go to church.