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tasmania: leave it to george the pied piper
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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Tagged Charles Dickens, Colonel George Arthur Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Tasmania Black Line offensive, Tasmania history, Tasmanian genocide, Thomas Bock paintings Tasmania
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tasmania: best laid plans…
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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Tagged Colonel George Arthur Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, James Bonwick Tasmania, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, John Webber sketches Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan Tasmania, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Robert Dowling Tasmania, Sir George Murray Secretary of State for the Colonies, Tasmanian genocide, Thomas Bock paintings Tasmania
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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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Tagged Colonel George Arthur Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, Governor Collins Tasmania, Jennifer Isaacs, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew FLinders Tasmania, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Pictorial Proclamation for Blacks Tasmania, Tasmania history, Tasmanian genocide
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tasmania: establishing the slave society
…But when Europeans settled in Tasmania, the relationship soon changed. Almost at once the Tasmanians were defined as enemies, actual or potential. One summer day some eight months after the establishment of the camp at Risdon Cove, the convicts and … Continue reading
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Tagged George Augustus Robinson, George bass tasmania, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Tasmania, Tasmanian aborigines, Tasmanian genocide
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tasmania: breaking the immemorial monotony
…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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Tagged Abel Tasman Tasmania, Benjamin Duterreau, Captain Bligh the Bounty, captain cook, Francois Peron Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marion du Fresne French navigator, Nicholas Baudin explorer, Tasmania history, Tasmanian genocide, William Lanney
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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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Tagged George Augustus Robinson, John Caesar Bushman, John Glover Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew FLinders Tasmania, Tasmania history, Tasmania penal colony, Tasmanian genocide, Van Diemen's Land
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tasmania: terrible dignities
…Though Tasmania is a lovely island now, its landscapes serene and its pride disarmingly genteel, patches of harsh memory disfigure it. By the 1820′s there were European settlements at both ends of the island. A fine road ran from north … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Cottrell Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, John Glover Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan, Macquarie Harbour Prison, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Tasmania penal colony, Tasmania Port Arthur, Tasmanian genocide, Van Diemen's Land
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tasmanian tragedy: pushed off the edge of the world
…A touching sadness surrounds their presence, from our distance of time. They seem an insubstantial people. Polygamous by custom, they were affectionate by disposition, and merry- singing in a sweet Doric harmony and dancing strenuous, hilarious, and frequently lascivious animal … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Law sculptures, Captain Jean Francois De La Perouse, George Arthur Van Diemen Land, George Augustus Robinson, Greg Lehman Tasmania, Hetti Perkins, Keith Windschuttle, King Billy Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Colvin, Peter McCutcheon, Tasmanian aborigines, Tasmanian genocide, Van Diemen's Land, William Lanne Tasmania
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final solution down under
The final solution down under. ” I regret the death of the last of the Tasmanian aborigines,” wrote one of the pious mourners when the race had finally become extinct,”but I know that it is the result of the fiat … Continue reading