Go dtuga sí suaimhneas síoraí.

Half Irish then?
She proudly was a member of the great O’Donoghue family.
Renowned in Irish culture and history.

Jasin wrote on Feb 4^th, 2024 at 9:41pm:

Where on Earth did you get that piece of utterly erroneous information?
Or did you just make it up?

AusGeoff wrote on Feb 4^th, 2024 at 7:53pm:


I don't think he said she was Irish.

He posted a quote that said her father was Irish.

Her christian name was Lois... a name which she held until relatively recent times ... when she changed it to something sounding as if it was traditional Aboriginal...

LOWITJA ... the similarity to her given name is quite humorous.

Whiter than I am but got the features.... now she was part of the stolen generation?  Well - I guess so was everyone else around at that time.... somehow all are either included or accorded responsibility.... so all were involved even when sleeping and unknowing.. the sleep of the Just....

You know what?  I think I'll call BS on that one.....

"In September 1934, aged two years, Lowitja was handed over to the missionaries at the Colebrook Home"

"When she was just two years old, she and two of her sisters were taken away from their mother by missionaries on behalf of South Australia's Aboriginal Protection Board to Oodnadatta run by the Baptists."

So which is it going to be?  Parents handed her over because they couldn't cope with all the kids and felt they would get a better life, feed etc elsewhere... or was she 'stolen'/taken away?

"According to O'Donoghue, she was very happy living at Colebrook and said she received a sound education both there and at the Quorn Primary School. The Quorn community at large actively encouraged children from the home to participate in local events, and assisted in the maintenance of the home. Only a few people objected to the integration.[17] In 1944 Colebrook Home moved to Eden Hills, South Australia, due to chronic water shortages, enabling her to attend Unley High School, a local public school, and obtain her Intermediate Certificate. She was taught up until the Leaving Certificate standard but did not sit for the examination"


Hmmmmm - just hmmmmmm.... nope .... hmmmmm and hmmmmer ... so out in the Nong she'd be uneducated, maybe underfed, taken as someone's illiterate 'wife' at fourteen, etc.... amongst the maligned Chriso's she was happy...... hmmmmmer....

This is like the crying on ABC by that descendant of one of the women at the Appin Massacre - the men who killed sixteen Whites including women and defenceless children were killed in a fair fight - the women and children taken into protective custody - and that crying woman wouldn't be here if they had all been been 'massacred'.  FFS ...

I'm sick of this 'truth telling' already .... it is literally sickening to listen to a pack of lies...

Gnads wrote on Feb 5^th, 2024 at 10:36am:


She apparently DELIBERATELY chose it because it was similar to her christened name.

Lisa Jones wrote on Feb 5^th, 2024 at 12:19pm:


That's virtually what I said .... but she didn't "choose" it .... it was made up to be similar.

You won't find what meaning it has.