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tasmania: they died by the dozens

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Dave

Transferring the Tasmanians to Flinders Island, restricting their movement, and dousing them with grim, Dickens era Christianity … …Some two hundred Tasmanians were sent to Wybalenna, and there, slowly, far away and out of sight, forgotten by the settlers, guarded … 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: 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: rationalizing the attitude

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Dave

Tasmania. A final solution down under… …It did not take long for the white community to convince itself that the Europeans were the aggrieved party, threatened by savages who denied them the right to farm and graze their own properties … Continue reading →

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tasmania: no paradise down under

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Dave

…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: breaking the immemorial monotony

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Dave

…Inevitably, this forceful community, gradually spreading from its seashore settlements, came into contact with the elusive aborigines of the forest. It was known from the start that they existed. When Dutch sailor Abel Tasman arrived off the southeast coast in … Continue reading →

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tasmania: instinct with violence

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Dave

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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