COLONIZATION OF AUSTRALIA AND DEATH OF ABORIGINES

There is a report in the Post Courier today that the state of Victoria is to investigate the colonization of Aboriginal people. The Australian people may not be aware of the murders of many Aboriginal people by white settlers. 

In Victoria the worst massacre occurred at Churnside manor near Werribee. The owner had befriended the local tribe. On one occasion the tribe arrived to be given bags of flour but they did not know the flour was laced with poison. They never returned.

A serious killing of Aboriginal men occurred in the Northern Territory in 1926 when whites were killed. The local tribe was arrested by the police, taken into the bush and shot with their bodies burned on a log fire.

The killing moved also to Papua New Guinea. There was the infamous Kaisenik massacre when miners arriving at Salamaua were ambushed in 1926 and killed on the Black Cat Track. Perhaps the attack of trekkers some 4-5 years ago was delayed revenge.

Angry miners stormed up from Salamaua and down from Edie Creek gold fields. They never found the culprits but surrounded a village near Edie Creek in the early morning and shot every villager who emerged from their bush huts. This was a punitive raid.

There was a video that I used to watch at the RAAF School of Languages that showed an old village man telling of all the killings of village men by trigger happy Masta Mick Leahy as he trekked the highlands. 

Masta Mick was furious that independence was on its way having fear that the plantations of the expatriates would be seized.  He declared that the country should not be independent before 2050.

He believed that the nation under the rogue teacher and radio announcer Michael Somare would sink into chaos. Masta Mick died an unhappy man with severe racist paranoia. His brother Danny was a kind and gentle man who supported the nation.

There was a film documentary prepared by James Sinclair that was used to show that the people of the highlands were primitive and not ready for independence regardless of the Foot Report and the United Nations.