Bronze figure sawn off at the ankles, with ‘The colony will fall’ spraypainted on the plinth, in apparent protest at Australia Day date
  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    Cook really just steered the boat for Joey (the rockstar biologist) banks.

    It was Banks that went back to Britain raving about “Terra nullius” (while knowing that to be false) and pushing colonisation. No one was interested in what Cook had to say.

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
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      9 months ago

      Da fuq terra nullius didn’t come about until much later when bourke cracked the shits at the formation of Melbourne beyond his control