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tasmania: aborgines down and under

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania drew to its grim conclusion. All that was left was some bleached bones of a vanished people… Truganini was the very last. Her life had spanned to the year the association between Europeans … Continue reading →

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tasmania: dismal endings without new beginnings

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dave

…Now the end was near for the Tasmanian race. The forty-four survivors- twelve men, twenty-two women, ten young people – were taken to an unused penal settlement at Oyster Cove, twenty five miles from Hobart and only fifteen miles from … Continue reading →

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tasmania: presiding over the decay

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under. Tasmania. And the man who was supposed to save them, may have contributed to their extinction… Flinders Island, to northern tastes, is said to hold great beauty: windswept silence, bare central hills, thick and aromatic … Continue reading →

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tasmania: population transfer

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Dave

The do-gooder who felt that God had called upon him to save the Tasmanian aborigines from their sinful ways and lead them toward the Truth. George Augustus Robinson and the final solution down under…. For five years Robinson came and … Continue reading →

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tasmania: leave it to george the pied piper

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania…. George Augustus Robinson. The type who would run a reformatory for reclaimed London hookers out of Dickens’ Hard Times. He was tireless, humorless and untiring. Also uneducated, dogmatic and his bent was to … Continue reading →

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tasmania: soldiers that can’t shoot straight

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania…. …Sometimes they did see an aborigine- once they briefly glimpsed a party of forty. More often they mistook clumps of trees, or black swans, or the rustle of leaves, or kangaroos, for the … Continue reading →

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tasmania: best laid plans…

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania…. …It was perhaps the most farcical campaign in the history of British imperial arms. The plan called for a steady advance on a front that would begin by being 120 miles long, but … Continue reading →

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tasmania: end of the locals

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania… …Macquarie House bustled with activity. Colonel George Arthur, the governor, himself assumed command of the operation and planned the cordon- “the Black Line”- on the most orthodox military principles. He had fought in … Continue reading →

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tasmania: first they had to be found

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

The final solution down under in Tasmania… …authority could not of course, sanction the extermination of the natives. Humanitarianism was a powerful motive of Empire, and public opinion in England would never stomach genocide. Sir George Murray, the Secretary of … Continue reading →

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tasmania: talking about the word extinct

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

Providing a final solution to the problem of the Tasmanian aborigines… …all were reaching the conclusion that life in Tasmania would be much happier if there were no Tasmanians. The Reverend Thomas Atkins, after a visit to Van Diemen’s Land … Continue reading →

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