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tasmania: population transfer

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: no paradise down under

…The colonization and subsequent final solution down under…. We hear of children kidnapped as pets or servants, of a woman chained up like an animal in a shepherd’s hut, of men castrated to keep them off their own women. In … Continue reading

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tasmania: instinct with violence

Tasmania and the final solution down under… …in the model prison, the latest techniques of criminal reform were practiced, notably the silence system- a system so absolute that the warders wore felt slippers and the prisoners wore masks in church … Continue reading

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tasmania: everyone must go

The final solution down under. Tasmania. …Strangest of all, there existed, shadowy among the ferns and gum trees, a race of human beings altogether unique, different ethnically and culturally from the aborigines of the Australian mainland, and living in secluded … Continue reading

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