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Taylor Swift – album define place 1:09
"I think, for me, different albums represent different chapters of my life. Fearless represents the breakthrough and all the discovery of, 'Wow. There's a big, wide world of music and I've just been thrown into it and I'm excited, and I'm scared.' We had incredible luck at the Grammy's with that album. And then I felt like I really had something to prove on Speak Now, because that last album, Fearless, was so big. I wanted to write a record by myself to prove that I could do it. To prove to myself that I could do it. So it was – in my mind it was a little bit lyrically dark and it was something that I'm always gonna be really proud of. With Red, I wanted to learn. I wanted to take my comfort zone, which at that point was writing songs alone, and I wanted to throw myself into a different realm, where I was out of my comfort zone. So I called up all these people I'm a fan of; producers, writers, artists, and just said, "I want you to be in on making this record with me. I want your influence." So, I'd say it was me expanding and learning and taking risks I'd never taken before."
Tim McGraw – Southern Girl as next single :25
"You know, it just felt like summertime. We're out on tour and we're playing a lot of things off of the new album. I think we play seven or eight songs off the new album, Fifty Lanes of Freedom record, on the tour this summer. That one just really stuck out to the reaction we got from the fans. More than anything it felt like summertime. And we knew it would be really playing on the radio right at the end of summer when it's really hot and everybody's going back to school and it just sorta fit the time that it would be out."
Laura Bell Bundy – obsessed with making country music :34
"I mean, I don't think I've ever been as inspired in my life as I am now. I feel completely open and free. To be inspired, is, they say, 'in spirit'. There's something very spiritual about creating and writing music. Sometimes you just feel like it's not coming from you and even if it's a silly, stupid dance song. It still feels like you're channeling something. That you're having a spiritual experience. That is addicting for me. I love it. Being on stage and doing my music, it is like the best drug you could ever take. I realize that I'm still gonna do this whether people listen or not."
Danielle Bradbery – person really want to meet :27
"I would absolutely—I mean, I've always been saying this: Carrie Underwood. She's huge in the country music. She has this powerhouse voice and she just looks so sweet. I would love to meet her. I sing all her songs all the time. She's definitely someone —one of the many I would like to meet. Everybody is so amazing, but she's definitely somebody that I would love to meet."
Justin Moore – Razorbacks football :32
"I'm so excited to get the bad taste out of our mouth from last year. We were expected to do so good. I mean, we were pre-season Top 5 and then it just obviously went south for us. But I'm hopeful that we're going in the right direction. I don't know how good we're gonna be this year. If we can make a Bowl game I think it would be a win for us. We're young and we need to get some more talent in there. I've become friends with Coach Bielema, our new head coach, great guy. He's got a proven record, proven track record, and I think he's gonna get us going in the right direction."
Thomas Rhett – Jason Aldean tour :26
"The tour with Jason has been a blessing. It's been amazing being out there with a superstar like Jason and being on one of the biggest tours of the year. When we first started it was very intimidating. And now I feel like I've grown very comfortable playing in arenas and playing in front of Jason's crowd and really trying to win those people over. It's been a once in a lifetime thing. I really think this tour has really spurred my fan base. I love being out there with Jake and Jason and getting to know those guys. It's been awesome."
The Band Perry – headlining tour ideas :24
Neil – "We're still kinda in the early phases of that."
Kimberly – "Well, I will tell you this, we are forcing our mother to get her pyrotechnic license officially. So there might be some fireworks. And on the Canadian leg, Lindsay Ell and Easton Corbin are coming out with us and those guys are both really great guitar players. So we're thinking about doing the traditional mesh as a band, all three acts together, but maybe making it more instrumental, which might be fun."
The Band Perry – working on set ideas :27
Reid – "We actually got out first designs about a couple of weeks ago, so we're getting several in, gonna see which one really works for us and put it all together, but we actually will start in November in Europe. So we're gonna get things started over there and then come back to North America."
Kimberly – "And we're spending all of our sound checks working out the set list already because, you know, it's quite a chemistry, the set list. So it's fun to just talk about different mash ups and ways of doing medleys of different tracks off of Pioneer, so it's exciting."
Eli Young Band – Drunk Last Night represent album :30
Chris Thompson - "'Drunk Last Night' represents what's coming up on our next record in a lot of ways. First, the songwriting is so unique and different. We love titles that kinda lend themselves to one thing but actually tell a different kind of story. Those unexpected things. Those are the kind of songs that we love to write. Those are the kind of songs that we're drawn to. So there's a lot of that on this record. But also the sound on 'Drunk Last Night' is representative of the sound that we're going for in this next record. There's a lot of energy in it. There's a lot of fun. And we feel like this is our record to do that. We want to put out songs that make people feel great and have a good time."
Florida Georgia Line – tailgating :25
Tyler - "We probably have a case of beer and probably some cornhole."
Brian – "Some music."
Tyler – "Probably, definitely some speakers set up or a truck sound system. I don't know. A couple lawn chairs. Maybe a couch in the back of the truck. I don't know. Something I do want to do one day is put all plastic in the bed of my truck and fill it up with water and sit in it like a little hot tub."
Brian – "I saw that. I see that at the Aldean show with a guy that did that."
Tyler – "Yeah. That sounds like fun."
Cassadee Pope – international fan base :44
"My band and I did a lot of touring overseas. We were lucky enough to be able to tour with the band Fallout Boy back when we first started in 2008. They took us on a world tour so we got a lot of our fans right off the bat overseas. And they just stuck with us through the years. We did a lot of touring in Japan and the U.K. so I think fans just saw us traveling the world and gravitated towards us because they thought maybe we were gonna be able to come to them. And then we also did a South American tour towards the end of our career together. But, we toured and that's how we gained a lot of our fanbase. I think some fans did jump on the bandwagon after The Voice as well, so it's kind of a mixture of both."


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Music in the Park returns
Summer has arrived in the Okanagan and our free concert season has begun. In todays post I want to let you know about the free community concerts happening in West Kelowna every Friday night, Music in the Park. They are held in Memorial Park, below the Johnson Bentley Pool, and have been rapidly increase in their popularity since their launch in 2012. Last year an average of 650 folks came out to every show and I expect our crowds will get even larger this summer.
It was a concept that I pitched Mayor Doug Findlater at a networking event in the fall of 2011 and the District of West Kelowna staff jumped whole-heartily at the opportunity to present this free community concert series to West Kelowna residents. In 2013 the Creative Okanagan Society was formed to produce the event for the District.
The lineup for the first Music in the Park event on July 4 is:
Talented Kid: 6:45 p.m. Antony Knight
Headline Act: 7 p.m. A Tribute to Sinatra and the Big Bands featuring Dreamland Band with guests Robert Fine, Gary Cable, Alisa Parker, and Grant in Concert
Each week there are three acts performing on the stage. We kick start each with a Talented Kid, then feature a duo or trio act before wrapping up with our headliner. Parents can bring their children every week and while they enjoy the show from the hill as the District of West Kelowna staff host a variety of the children's activities in the field. Of course you should be warned that there is a strong likelihood that the children will be asking to enjoy some of the ice cream sold by the food vendor that sets up at every show.
This season we kick start the season with the Dreamland Band. They were one of the very first acts to play at Music in the Park Back so after a hiatus in 2013 we wanted to bring them back to West Kelowna.
Photo: Ryan Donn
Without further ado here is the interactive 2014 Music in the Park schedule
A lot of folks as for directions to the event so here is a video I made showing how to find us every Friday night in July or August. The shows start at 6:45pm. See you there.
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Iron Bridge Wine Company - Columbia
- Address:
10435 State Route 108
also known as Clarksville Pike
Columbia, MD 21044Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
Contemporary AmericanPrice: $30 and under
Iron Bridge Wine Company - Columbia
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://www.ironbridgewines.com/
- Phone: 4109973456
- Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Saturday: 11:00am - 2:00pm; Dinner: Monday - Thursday: 5:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday & Saturday: 5:00pm - 11:00pm, Sunday: Dinner All Day from 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Diners Club,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Wine Bar, Contemporary American
- Executive Chef: Christopher Lewis
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Farm to Table, Fireplace, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Takeout, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine, Wine Bar
- Private Party Facilities: Private Party availability changes with day and time requested. For more information please contact Jessica Barber at 410.997.3456
- Private Party Contact: Jessica Barber 4109973456
- Entertainment: We conduct casual wine tastings on select Monday evenings from 6:00-7:00.
A word from Iron Bridge Wine Company - Columbia
Top notch restaurant and wine bar featuring a 35+ wine-by-the-glass offering, wine tasting flights, a full service restaurant highlighting small plate entrees, as well as a boutique retail wine shop that boasts an unusual collection of wines from around the world. Purchase a bottle to drink with dinner and pay just $10 over retail cost! A full bar with signature cocktails using house made infusions and bottled beers are also available.Continued
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Iron Bridge Wine Company - Columbia reviews from OpenTable diners
211 reviews since June 27, 2014
- Food4.5Service4.6
- Ambiance4.2Noise LevelModerate
notable wine list (170)fit for foodies (155)special occasion (119)neighborhood gem (117)romantic (93)great for lunch (55)great for brunch (32)good for groups (27)hot spot (17)vibrant bar scene (13)scenic view (10)late-night find (9)kid-friendly (4)great for outdoor dining (1)Show More
- Fantastic Dinner!EliseDined on 10/22/2014We had a wonderful dinner - met friends who had never dined here and they loved it! The roasted pepper/tomato soup was divine and the shoulder tenderloin cooked perfected! We definitely will return!Special Features:
- Homey, if you live in a fancy barOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 10/21/2014Excellent place to get some great wine and delicious food. The menu even offers pairings, which is nice for novices such as myself. The seating on the bar side was a little cramped. It seemed weird that a fancy place would have bench seating, but hey, that's just me. Make sure you call to make sure your reservation was confirmed, as ours was not. They did however, have a confirmation from a reservation I made two years ago.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great foodYummmmDined on 10/20/2014Food was great as always, however this time the service was a bit slow. Our server was extremely nice and polite, but seemed overwhelmed with her huge party. We often had to ask for things a few times, aside from that. Food was absolutely amazing!Special Features:
- Always love the Bridge!JackieVIPDined on 10/19/2014It is so great to have this neighborhood gem in such a convenient location. They make us feel like family.Special Features:
- JohnDined on 10/19/2014As always, the food and service was excellent. Our reservation was for 4:30 on Sunday, and we arrived on time. The dinner specials were not available till 5:00 PM, so we ordered some appetizers for the three of us to share and a glass of wine for each. The Chorizo Braised Calamari was superb, along with the Three Cheese Plate. We were just getting thrugh our appitezers when it was 5:00 PM and we ordered dinner. My wife and I got the New York Strip Steak, and my daughter wanted the Shrimp & Grits. Both steaks were outstanding, very tender, juicy, and flavorfull without being bloody (which my wife doesn't like). We hardly needed the steak knives they gave us to cut them. My daughter said the shrimp had a great flavor,mwhich just the right amount of spicyness. For our dinner wine we ordered the recommended pairing for the steak, and it was so good I bought a case to take home with us. Overall a memorable meal!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- love this placemsmdDined on 10/18/2014an old standby. always love going here. food was excellent as usual. but service was slow. after being seated did not see a server to greet us for over 10 minutes.Special Features:
- One of the Best!DipstickDined on 10/18/2014This was our second visit and we brought friends who just loved it. We dine out often and I would recommend to anyone who enjoys good food and wine. Qtr's are close but the atmosphere and restruant staff are friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. Thanks for another wonder evening!Special Features:
- Third time is still a charm!LyrexisDined on 10/18/2014Love this place! I've been three times already, and each time makes me want to come back!Special Features:
- Excellent food and wineMarioDined on 10/15/2014We were here for a birthday celebration. The outside is certainly unassuming; it almost looks like a family home, certainly not like an upscale restaurant. The interior is simply decorated as well, but that's where the simplicity stops. The food was absolutely excellent, and the wine selection was more than ample. Our waitress offered a number of selections based upon our preferences, and the selected wine was just what we were looking for. Definitely will be coming back.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 10/15/2014I have been here three or four times and have found the menu varied and quite good....I have recommended this restaurant to many friends.Special Features:
- great food!mbsafoodloverDined on 10/10/2014Loved our appetizers, loved our entrees, but our desserts were good but not outstanding. still a lovely mealSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Very good food but pricy winesRWoodBVIPDined on 10/9/2014I have not found better mussels in MD or DC. They are plump and moist, and the broth has the right balance of garlic and other ingredients. As Iron Bridge is a wine store as well as a restaurant, the wine selection is very good, but $32 for a bottle of 2012 Achaval Ferrer Malbec before a $15 corkage is added (except on Thursdays when corkage is waived) is unreasonable. I can purchase this wine for less than $20 a bottle at another wine store. If I purchase a case, the price is discounted 20 percent.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great place, if packedGrumpyOldDudeDined on 10/8/2014Iron Bridge continues to be a great place for a fine dinner or lunch. If you don't go nuts, you can have several glasses of wine and very nice dining experience for about 100 bucks apiece, including a 20% tip. I wasn't bowled over by the wine, but it was all interesting and thoughtfully varied, including an nice white from Gascony (I was warned it was a little sweet, and it was) and a good red Rhone. The menu is still sensibly modest. My wife and I agreed everything we had was really excellent, including roasted octopus, cunning little duck croquettes, and a lovely bit of roast pork. One does need to make a reservation. We were at the restaurant from 6:30-8:30 on a Thursday night, and the joint was hopping the whole time.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always ExceptionalTKreitDined on 10/7/2014This was a girls night out and we had an amazing time. The food was out of this world good. The service is always top notch. I love this place! I recommend checking out what is going on with the restaurant prior to making your reservations. We decided on the Tuesday because of the featured Winery that evening. Would have missed that if we stuck to the original plan of Monday. Also, spice things up. I have often given the server a price point and asked them to surprise me with a wine selection for the evening. I have never been disappointed!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always great food and winegeomayDined on 10/5/2014Another outstanding meal at Iron Bridge Wine Company. I had the salmon and my wife had the shrimp and grits. Interesting new pinot noir from Washington state. We are wiling to drive 20 miles for the apple crisp desert.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- A Delcious Meal….Lovely Setting!OpenTable Diner Since 2006VIPDined on 10/5/2014Very impressed w/ management. A friend's dish was not to her liking and they immediately offered to replace it with something else. Food and service was great!Special Features:
- great placeMermaidDined on 10/5/2014As always, Iron Bridge winery was a great experience with dining, ambience & good food. The staff is knowledgeable (sp) & attentive.Special Features:
- First TimeMactacDined on 10/4/2014Friendly, fun. A bit noisy at times. Drink order to table a little bit slow. Food excellent. Our server Jess was great!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Another Great TimechefeddieDined on 10/2/2014We went to Iron Bridge the other night with friends and well, everything was perfect. The food was wonderful. My wife had the octopus special and she loved it. I tried some too and wow. Please tell the chef and the rest of the kitchen staff that they are at least 5 stars. The service was wonderful. We have been to many restaurants over many years and it is the service that makes or breaks a restaurant. Iron Bridge knows how to please their diners!!!! We will be back!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Iron Bridge Wine CompanyMichelleDined on 10/2/2014Great for a business lunch, or an evening out with friends. Great food options... everything was fresh and delicious! Service was exceptional.Special Features:
- Birthday lunchCharlieDined on 9/30/2014Ordered shrimp w/grits. 5 shrimp served w/ about 1/2 cup of thinly spread grits for $24 was a bit pricey. I wouldn't order that again. The key lime dessert w/ pineapple chutney was delicious; it was served in something which looked like an empty jam jar. The squash soup was nothing special. My friend had a delicious salad and pizza/.flatbread and received a complimentary dessert for her birthday. Her meal was quite good compared to mine. More "generous" portions should be considered.Special Features:
- First Time But Not the LastClarksvilledinerDined on 9/29/2014We have driven past Iron Bridge for year and finally stopped. The service was attentive but not hovering. The servers teamed up so we were never unattended. The food was outstanding. This was our first time to Iron Bridge and we will definitely be back.Special Features:
- Date NightMikeyDined on 9/27/2014I took my girlfriend out to eat at this restaurant. We had a great time. The server was very friendly. She recommended a wine that my gi friend loved! The food was delicious. She had the steak and I had the 1/2 chicken. The wine pairing that were suggested where great! We had a lot of fun. I would recommend this place to others in a heartbeat!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- look twicerepeDined on 9/26/2014Don't be fooled by the outside. The atmosphere, food and wine selection in the inside is superb.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- AJBekVIPDined on 9/26/2014Pork was fabulous. Rockfish small portion ans not anything special.Special Features:
- food temperature issuesOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 9/25/2014The main courses for a table of four came at cool temperatures and the dessert was cold.Special Features:
- Very good valueRWoodBVIPDined on 9/24/2014The $18 lunch special featuring several appetizer and several entree options is a very good value. While my favorite is the mussels appetizer, the mezze plate is a close second. The entrees include a large vegetable sandwich with a choice of several sides. As the restaurant is also a wine store, the selection is excellent. For after the meal, there is a strong espresso.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always Satifies!DebbieVIPDined on 9/23/2014Iron Bridge has been a favorite of ours since it opened. The food is always great. Jeanine is a fabulous server. On a recent visit had a pork tenderloin dish that was flavorful & tender. The Duck confit with beans & kale was also exceptional. There are new things on the menu to check. Highly recommend!Special Features:
- Always terrific!BillsbestfriendVIPDined on 9/22/2014The biggest problem is getting in to have the wonderful meals - they are always packed which is the best indication of how good they really are! We have been going since they opened & will continue - great food, great service - all together, over the top!Special Features:
- CharlesVIPDined on 9/22/2014Columbia location - Food and service is always excellent! Never had a bad meal and we go often. I like that they will switch out the shrimp for scallops in the shrimp and grits preparation.Special Features:
- An evening at Iron BridgeCapsFanVIPDined on 9/21/2014Despite being pretty much out of the way of anywhere, the place was packed on a Sunday night. Lots of interesting items on the menu, duck cassolet (really duck confit) was especially delicious. A wonderful wine list and really fine service.Special Features:
- Great food/wine!FoodfanaticDined on 9/20/2014Wonderful dining experience- the food was amazing and the service was superb!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Iron Bridge Wine Company - DinnerOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/19/2014I was at Iron Bridge with my wife for a dinner. I had a reservation at 9.30 pm, got there at 9.15 pm and was waiting at the bar for our reserved table until 9.50 PM. The food and wine were great, service was good too.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Afternoon delightFerliseVIPDined on 9/16/2014A friend and I had a delightful quiet lunch here in the middle of the week. The atmosphere was quiet and relaxing. a distinct contrast to the bustling dinnertime activity. We shared the always scrumptious crunchy brussel sprouts. I had the tasty black bean soup and an asparagus salad that was quite good. My friend had a very filling and delicious hamburger. I haven't dined here for lunch in over six years and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I definitely recommend it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- anniversary dinner datePatrickDined on 9/15/2014The wife and I met here so we decided to celebrate our 2nd anniversary here. The staff took excellent care of us, and the food was perfect.Special Features:
- Amazing BrunchMsMontanaDined on 9/14/2014My friend and I like to celebrate our friendship by enjoying a great lunch/brunch/dinner somewhere in the local area. Iron Bridge was the perfect location and the food was amazing; fresh and seasoned perfectly. Kate our server was very knowledgeable about the prep and ingredients of our selections. It was all good. From beginning to end. We will be back soon.Special Features:
- OKOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 9/12/2014The service is always good, but seating is crowded and noise levels can be tough. The food seems to have lost a step from the past, and entrees are pricey for the quality. The wines are always interesting and the staff knowledgeable.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great Food & Wine, Neat DecorLos4WineDined on 9/11/2014This restaurant was cozy and warm when you come in. Large dining table in the middle of the main dining area for large parties, which I would like to come back for. The food was reasonably priced for delicious dishes and a fabulous wine selection. My wife had ordered her dessert with the paired wine, and it matched perfectly - I'd like to see how the other pairings matched up. I will be coming back to the restaurant with friends in tow.Special Features:
- MacChezDined on 9/10/2014The SOUS-VIDE PORK CHOP was fantastic! Tender, moist, close to the best Pork Chop I have ever had...Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Excellent FoodOpenTable Diner Since 2010Dined on 9/6/2014The wine was ok, nothing special and reds served a little warmer then they probably should be. The food was fantastic though! The burrata was a newly discovered dish I will not soon forget, highly recommend! The main dishes and desserts were also very well made and tasted delicious. I will be back, but next time will probably select a wine for the table as opposed to the flight as it was just not up to the quality of the rest of the meal.I would recommend this to a friend.


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I ve been doing some work for NZ Winter Games the last 2 weeks and decided to volunteer behind the bar for the big closing live 'the Black Seeds'. A great kiwi funk-o-reggae band. The bar was a chaos, we had no briefing, no control and most of the volunteers there never worked at a bar before..
Was fun, though. I had a few drinks (I wont forget a girl asking me: 'are we allowed to drink?' !!) and managed to see the Seeds performing 3 wonderful songs. I danced.


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Indian Chicken Salad
Kitchen Tested
- Yield 4 servings
The distinct flavors of curry and ginger combine with the sweetness of oranges.
- 1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped red onion
- dash cayenne pepper
- Salt to taste
- 1 pound sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
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This is a PowerPoint to accompany an assembly based on Remembrance for use around 11th November. It covers the focus for remembrance, why it is important and has the story of the sacrifice of the Hearts of Midlothian 1st division football team as the main focus. When music is added to the start an More…d end, makes a very moving assembly (some staff and pupils even left with tears in their eyes last year). Should you use this resource, please leave feedback. Thank you.
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Posts tagged 'Aboriginal issues'
Crossing the Ngunitiji: Clarence clear water
On the eastern edge of the Great Dividing Range, near the border between NSW and Queensland, a small stream quickly gathers pace as it slithers down the mountains. It is an area of good rains and picks up lots of tributaries in the Dorrigo Plateau. By the time it reaches the valleys, it is a large and broad, the widest Australian river to enter the Pacific. At its estuary the river is a majestic one kilometre wide. The ferry from Yamba in the south to Iluka in the north takes 30 minutes to negotiate its dangerous channels, islands and sandbars. To the Yaegl and Bundjalung people (collectively known as Yaygirr) that lived in this valley the river was called the Ngunitiji. The Yaygirr had a good lifestyle for at least 6,000 years, so much so they could afford to set up roots and live in bark huts with woven vines. At nighttime they gathered around told the story of the old woman Dirrangan who was swept down the river during a flood holding on to a fig tree. But it was the Yaygirr who would eventually be swept away when newcomers coveted the river and its fertile land. These ghostly white people were initially slow to see its insignificance. Cook missed it on his 1770. Matthew Flinders did find the bark huts when he landed at the mouth of the Ngunitiji during his second voyage in 1799. He called the area Shoal Bay but was unimpressed by the shifting sandbars and failed to see he was at the mouth of a major flow calling it "a small opening like a river". For the next 40 years, the river remained invisible to white eyes. John Oxley missed it in his discovery of the Tweed River in 1823 as did Henry Rous in the same area five years later. Rous would even called Oxley's Tweed the 'Clarance' but that name didn't stick. In the decade after Oxley, rumours persisted of a Big River in northern NSW especially after convicts started to escape south from Moreton Bay penal colony. In 1830 one escapee "Sheik" Jack Brown made it as far as Yaygirr country where he lived with locals for two years. When he finally returned to Moreton Bay he told of a great river which "abounds with fish." Its land was abundant in "emus, kangaroos, and wild fowl in all directions" and "pine, oak, gum and other trees of use" were growing there. Brown excited the imagination of would-be settlers looking for easy pickings among the apparently friendly natives. Captain Alexander Butcher took the Eliza into the estuary and sailed 200km up the river, mapping it as he passed. It was his report that finally got Sydney's attention. Explorer Joseph Hickey Grose decided to verify Butcher's findings the following year and he reported back to deputy-surveyor Samuel Perry about "the future opening of the country on the banks of the river". The schooner Susan also left Sydney in 1838 with a party of sawyers looking for cedar. It was not a good wood for building houses or boats so the men lived in tent-huts, surviving on beef, flour, tea and sugar. Three times a year they went to the new settlement at what would become Grafton where there was complaints about their drunken behaviour. Though the cedar was quickly exhausted, many stayed to try their hand at farming. By now the Ngunitiji had a white name. The master of the ship King William, Captain Francis Griffin urged Governor Gipps in Sydney to name it "with a title somewhat more clear than the Big River." Perhaps it was the name of Griffin's ship as well as well as loyalty to the crown that caused Gipps to go with Rous's name for the Tweed in honour of the recently deceased King William IV, previously known as the Duke of Clarence. As word spread in Sydney, there was a rush of cedar-cutters, squatters and selector farmers into the Clarence's fertile valley. The Yaygirr people watched apprehensively as strangers poured into their territory. Initially there was cautious co-existence but the trickle of Europeans became a flood and took black lands and waterholes. Once they started locking up land for cane growing, the Yaygirr were forced to steal back to survive. They killed white stock and attacked isolated settlements. In 1847 Thomas Coutts took revenge as he poisoned 23 Gumbaynggir people with strychnine in their flour. Five died in agony but Coutts avoided prosecution as there was not enough evidence. There were two documented massacres, one at Green Hills near Red Rock where mounted native police drove natives off the headland, the other at Station Creek. Oral histories also tell of killings at Minnie Waters, Cassons Creek and Tyndale in the early 1840s. By the 1900s massacres and disease had weakened the black population and land dispossession was complete. There were few left who could speak the Yaygirr language. Their journey back from the precipice of non-peoplehood began with the 1967 Referendum. They were then remembered in the naming of the Yuraygir National Park declared in 1977. Though widely dispersed today, the area's traditional owners still proudly call out their links to the region. The Bundjalong gave their name to the national park north of the Clarence. To the south, the Yaegl and the Gumbaingirr trace common descent through the female line. Their land councils and totems are important, indeed the Bundjalong won the first Aboriginal land grant in NSW in 1985 at Evans Head. But it is the mighty Clarence, the Big River, the Ngunitiji that still speaks loudest. The Europeans have moulded it in their own industrious image with breakwaters and ports. But the ghost of Dirrangan still haunts its wide waters.
Three lives Part 3 – Pearson's mission
By the 20th century, Queensland was in white hands and Indigenous survivors lived in shanty-towns or missions. At Hope Vale in Cape York, German missionaries were successful because they learned the local language. Many Indigenous people were killed in the 1870s Palmer River goldrush and the Guugu Yimithirr people were grateful to Lutheran pastor Schwarz who provided an alternative to a fringe-dwelling existence. As in missions across Australia young strangers developed an Aboriginal identity of their own. Noel Pearson's father was a stockman who grew up at the mission and shared its Lutheran faith and Noel was born there in 1965, two years a "constitutional alien" before the referendum was passed. Noel enrolled at a Brisbane Lutheran school, and studied anthropology and archaeology at the University of Queensland.
A great influence was Charles Perkins, another mission boy whose political fearlessness and strong sense of Aboriginal dignity saw him lead the freedom ride and later clash with numerous prime ministers. Pearson got his first taste of politics with what Marcia Langton called the Goss Labor Queensland government's 'nasty games' on land rights. Pearson was excited by the 1992 Mabo decision saying native title showed the capacity of British common law. He described Keating's Redfern speech as 'the seminal moment of European Australian acknowledgement of grievous inhumanity' to Indigenous people. But after Howard won power in 1996, Pearson adjusted his political radar.
Pearson was beginning to understand the problems of decolonisation. On western Cape York, Peter Dutton exposed the devastating state of Aurukun describing it as the end of the liberal consensus on Aboriginal issues. In Pearson's Hope Vale, alcohol, drugs and gambling dependencies were rife. He saw 'sit down money' as a long-term corrosive and began to take 'once unmentionable' issues to a national audience. Pearson saw the political left was strong on land rights but weak on personal responsibility while the right was the opposite. Pearson became a 'radical centrist' and following Amartya Sen, he spoke of the illusion of singular identity and began understanding Australia as country shared by two peoples. His goal is to see Indigenous people recognised as "peoples" with cultural distinctiveness and "populations" who can be measured against health and education outcomes against other Australians. Pearson's speeches speak to an ever-evolving sense of self, grounded by the dignity of his upbringing and his Aboriginality.
Bennelong, Bussamarai and Pearson are separated by time and circumstance but united by the need to take control of their lives. All faced massive challenges and all were scarred by proximity to colonialism. Bennelong was arguably Indigenous Australia's first and only ambassador, but was discarded when Britain had no more use for him. By Bussamarai's time colonisation was in full swing across Australia, a war on many fronts. His 'opera' was similar to Bennelong's spearing of Phillip: the mark of a strategic thinker with a sense of drama.
Bussamarai was killed and victors wrote him out of the history. Today, an Indigenous man is re-writing history and imposing his own dignity on a white world. Noel Pearson is educated enough to understand the scars of colonisation but he is also honest enough to see the problems of decolonisation. His speeches are the mark of an iconoclastic intellectual, black and brave yet also human and universal. Pearson is using dignity to serve new ends for a people that have survived invasion and want to flourish on their own terms.
Three lives Part 2 – Bussamarai's opera
Forty years after Bennelong's death (see Part 1), equal terms between black and white were forgotten as white Australia pushed out from the coast. Encouraged by British demand for Australian wool, pastoralism provided the impetus for territorial expansion. Legally the justification was terra nullius. Chief Justice Forbes called Australia an 'uninhabited country' but it was the settlers who were making it uninhabitable for the blacks. Squatters, blinded by profits, simply stole the land and when Aborigines fought back they were killed. Their mere presence was enough for them to be shot or poisoned – men, women and children. This was true in southern Queensland's Maranoa as elsewhere, but there a Mandandanji resistance leader would put on a show that was just as elaborate as Bennelong's spearing of Phillip and just as meaningful.
In April 1850 white settlers near Surat were invited to a corroboree, what Gideon Lang would later call an 'opera'. The conductor said Lang, was 'Eaglehawk' (Bussamarai) who sat behind a choir of black women while men on stage acted out an elaborate play. With astonishing mimicry the actors played cattle grazing in the fields. Next they became black warriors sneaking up to spear cattle. Then others playing 'manufactured whites' starting shooting the 'blacks'. To the great joy of the mainly non-white audience, the 'blacks' overwhelmed the 'whites' at the end of the opera. Bussamarai's message was he could combine five local tribes to drive the whites from the country. The lessons the whites drew was equally clear: bring in the native police.
The history is scant on Bussamarai/Eaglehawk, two of his four names along with Old Billy and Possum Murray (Bussamarai may simply be a backward formation from Possum Murray). The first squatters searched Mandandanji lands around 1842 when Finney Eldershaw and others scouted the Maranoa and Balonne Rivers. Thomas Mitchell came through in 1846 and he was a close friend of NSW parliamentary secretary and fellow Scot William Macpherson. William's son Allan had a property in New England and Macpherson junior was excited by Mitchell's diary entry for the Maranoa: 'fine open country, and from the abundance of good pasturage around it, I named it Mt Abundance'.
Armed with Mitchell's maps, Macpherson capitalised on a March 1847 Order in Council possibly drafted by his father which granted frontier squatters 14-year leases. Macpherson claimed 400,000 acres of 'the most beautiful land that ever sheep's eyes travelled over'. But within a week the blacks appeared, frightening his men 'into convulsions'. The fear was mutual, the natives dreading Macpherson's double-barrelled carbine and horse. While Macpherson was away, they killed two shepherds and stole a thousand sheep. Macpherson was forced out after two years of 'sundry conflicts with the hostile blacks' and while he believed the grass was no use to them, he admitted 'they no doubt thought they had a better right to the land than we did'.
While Macpherson showed conscience, other quieter settlers who followed did not. These men like Thomas Hall, Henry Dangar, Robert Fitzgerald and Joseph Fleming were in the Gwydir wars, and a 'social destructive group' with a 'single-minded quest for wealth and status'. Hardened by the Myall Creek massacre and subsequent hanging of seven whites, they had a new unwritten law: 'death by stealth'. In 1859 drover William Telfer heard about the slaughter that occurred after Macpherson's time. Telfer was a witness to the Waterloo Creek killings and Telfer's Wallabadah manuscript describes several massacres in the Maranoa including a 'fight' on Fleming's property with a 'Cheif [sic] who was shot with about fifty others'.
Bussamarai was also active killing settlers at Dulacca until a posse tracked his mob down to the Grafton Ranges. There they captured "a powerful man". Though later released, Bussamarai did not forget his humiliation and forced Blyth to evacuate his station in October 1848. The absentee Gwydir landlords allowed 20 or so 'insubordinate and lawless white workers' to kill 80 Mandandanji in two years. The elusive Bussamarai's talents got grudging tribute. Hovenden Hely, in the Maranoa in 1852 to search for Leichhardt, described Bussamarai as 'the head and prime mover of all the depredations and murders committed there' but admitted he was a 'chief of great repute'. However with squatters agitating for native troopers to come, his time was up. Native Police Sergeant Skelton recounted the end after a fight in November 1852 "they [Bussamarai and another] were both shot in the attempt to apprehend them".
Bussamarai's death was one of hundreds in the violent Maranoa frontier war from 1846 to 1856. It was a war that moved up from the Gwydir and across from the Darling Downs and would later move north towards the Dawson River. The ruthless competition for land that led to Bussamarai's death was forgotten and buried under pioneer legends. Through storytelling, the frontier was transformed into a battle between (white) humans and nature. But until it is accepted the frontier was a war zone, reconciliation of the past with present will continue to be an elusive goal.
Three lives: Part 1 – Bennelong time
Human dignity has always played a key role in political action. It is a central tenet of Christianity yet Protestant England and Catholic France both established colonial empires by force because they rated the dignity of Asians and Africans lower than their own. Aboriginal dignity was rated lowest yet is grounded in culture and religion. For two centuries Europeans stripped them of dignity, calling them 'savages', 'wild myalls', 'ignorant blacks', 'niggers', 'coons' and 'drunken Abos'. Restoration of dignity is now central to Indigenous peoplehood. When Bob Maza was attempting to create Koori awareness in the 20th century, his appeal was based on dignity: "The white man can look back with pride and honour at the history of his people. So you who are black must also search and find that pride and dignity which lies in your ancestry."
The next three posts examine how dignity shaped the lives of three Indigenous Australians from different eras. First is Bennelong from the period of encounter, who leapt across the frontier to lead an 'Australian' and 'British' life. Second is Bussamarai, a Mandandanji warrior from colonial times. This little known frontier fighter was an impediment to the British land grab for 10 years and had startling ideas for communicating with Europeans. The third is Noel Pearson, a complex modern day warrior for postcolonial times and his Guugu Yimithirr people. Pearson sees dignity as an important tool of peoplehood, ahead of a day he hopes the vast majority of Australians will agree to the 'unfinished business', a constitutional treaty with its Indigenous people.
There was no talk of treaties when Cook took possession of New South Wales in 1770. Cook saw fires along the coast as a 'Certain sign that the Country is habitated'. His naturalist Joseph Banks saw fishers who 'scarce lifted their eyes' at their strange visitors. Cook and Banks started a tradition of an inoffensive people that hinted at innate weakness. Banks told a 1779 parliamentary inquiry NSW was a good place for a colony, because it only housed 'naked cowardly savages'. Banks was wrong on all three counts. Indigenous people have lived in Australia for 60,000 years and had plenty of time to develop a sophisticated lifestyle. They quarried for stone and ochre and mastered firestick farming which transformed the landscape. Bradley in the First Fleet saw how they had sophisticated fishing techniques and how they also used mathematics to make calendar calculations. They traded with 'sea gypsies' – Muslim trepangers from Sulawesi and other islands. Possibly 750,000 people lived in Australia in 1788 networked by songlines, kinship, reciprocity and law. Most needed five hours daily to gather food. That left plenty of time for rest, sociability, spirituality, and development of dignity.
Britain's conquest of Australia was unrelated to the 'natives': it was a claim against European powers and the colony would absorb, in Colonial Secretary Evan Nepean's words, 'a dreadful banditti'. Governor Arthur Phillip wanted Indigenous relationships but had no instructions for a treaty and offered none. Echoing Dampier a century earlier, John Hunter thought the Eora, smeared with animal fat and covered in dust and ashes, "abominably filthy". Watkin Tench was sympathetic but trusted British guns: 'Our first object was to win their affections and our next to convince them of the superiority we possessed,' he said, 'for without the latter, the former we knew would be of little importance'.
Anthropologist Bill Stanner said the seeds for the unequal relationship between black and white were sown during Phillip's 'muddy and incoherent' rule. The Eora mistook Phillip's missing front tooth as a sign of initiation and offered respect but kept their distance. Just as the Dutch did in northern Australia in the 17th century, Phillip resorted to kidnapping to establish communications, claiming it necessary to swap languages so 'redress might be pointed out to them if they are injured, and to reconcile them by showing the many advantages they would enjoy by mixing with us'. His first victim Arabanoo died of smallpox. Judy Campbell says smallpox swept down from the north coast but it seems an extraordinary coincidence it arrived within 15 months of the First Fleet. Whatever the cause, it decimated the Eora and left an infant colony facing starvation.
Phillip kidnapped again and snared Bennelong who stayed for five months and would become a 'personage' in the colony. Bennelong recognised how clothes marked status and swiftly adopted British manners. Tench judged Bennelong as 'of good stature and stoutly made, with a bold intrepid countenance which bespoke defiance and revenge'. His casual violence towards women shocked the British. Bennelong laughed while telling Tench of a wound gained while he beat a woman 'till she was insensible and covered in blood'. Bennelong's escape after 5 months was likely due to the need for sex but it also allowed him time to plan revenge for his kidnapping. Phillip's spearing at Manly beach was a ritual payback punishment for Bennelong's abduction. Inga Clendinnen says Bennelong directed an elaborate performance as the 'hinge man' for proper compensation from ignorant invaders. Bennelong would insist Phillip visit him ten days later, despite Phillip's serious injury. As the first Indigene to eventually formally "come in" to Sydney, he insisted his house be built on what would become Bennelong Point. It was a de facto Eora embassy where people came as they pleased to the bewilderment of the British. Tench said Bennelong had become a 'man of so much dignity and consequence that it was not always easy to obtain his company'.
Bennelong used reciprocal obligations and kinship to manage the British, calling Phillip 'father' and insisting wife Barangaroo have her baby at government house. Bennelong would accompany Phillip to England as someone 'very attached to his person'. After three years abroad Bennelong was homesick. Hunter described his condition: 'He has for the last 12 months been flattered with the hope of seeing again his native country… but so long a disappointment has broken his spirit and the coldness of the weather here has so frequently laid him up that I am apprehensive his lungs are affected'.
On his return Bennelong's fell on hard times as his 1796 letter to England reveals: 'another black man took [my wife] away… he spear'd me in the back, but I better now". He died in 1813 and his Sydney Gazette obituary noted his insubordinate drunkenness and damned him as a 'thorough savage'. The Gazette was uncharitable. Bennelong was a dignified ambassador for his people and the first to offer a glimpse of how Europeans and Australians might exist on equal terms.
Quandamooka versus Queensland: A tale of law, PR and Stradbroke Island
I was coming from Roma St Station towards Kurilpa Bridge to the Queensland State Library yesterday thinking about my aboriginal studies with a final assignment due on Monday. I was trying to figure out how crucial dignity was to three Indigenous ambassadors from different times, Bennelong, Bussamarai and Noel Pearson. Suddenly, out of nowhere appeared two men with an Aboriginal flag.
The timing seemed extraordinary and they were heading the same way as me. I followed them to the Commonwealth law courts in front of Kurilpa bridge. Some Indigenous people were putting up signs and waiting outside the court, while others still got ready to do a traditional dance. There were television and other media present. There was the promise of a peaceful protest and street theatre. The State Library could wait, I thought, this was a media event and I was media. This was also Indigenous people acting out their own dignity. This was important, to them, and to me.
Across the forecourt, young men put up banners while others handed out kits to waiting media. I asked for a kit and read their story. The High Court case was about sand mining rights on "Straddie". Straddie is North Stradbroke Island, or Minjerribah, to its Indigenous people. They were here to appeal to Canberra to stop Brisbane from making laws about their island without their permission. It is also political. Labor's law in 2o11 permits mining to 2019 – with Indigenous consent – but the LNP introduced a new law in 2013 to push the end of mining to 2035 and also increase its size. But federal law says they should have consulted with the traditional owners and this is something the Queensland government didn't do.
The constitution says that when State and Federal law clash, the latter should prevail. But not for the moment, and the unconsulted Straddie Aboriginal people had to take it to the highest court in the land. It was blatant lack of regard, something my reading of the history told me happened time and time again across the country since 1788. Straddie is close to Brisbane but bridgeless, much to the delight of most of its residents black and white plus most of the visitors that make the ferry. Visitors are not new. Straddie has been home to humans for over 20,000 years.
We don't know their original name but their descendants became the Quandamooka people. The Quandamooka maintain a presence on the island to this day. Straddie was annexed by Cook in 1770 and again by Phillip in 1788 as part of New South Wales but the islanders remained blissfully ignorant of British rule for another 36 years. Reality struck when another penal colony was needed to punish the ones already here that needed further punishing. Moreton Bay (Brisbane) fit the bill.
The British felt no permission was necessary to establish this colony, enforced at the butt of a carbine. They first landed on Straddie, the same year – 1824 – as they landed in Brisbane. At a place the islanders called Pulan, they built a pilot station overlooking the strategic exit to the ocean. Whites later renamed it to Amity Point. By then Moreton Bay was opened to free labour and from 1859, Straddie would by ruled by Brisbane, not London or Sydney. An early church mission named Myora failed to win converts. And though Australia was formed in 1901, here as elsewhere, the Quandamooka people were not counted and at the mercy of their colonial government. The earliest Brisbane rulers were pasturalists who had good financial reason to support "the opening up" of territory for agriculture. Later regimes were heavily paternal, locking up Aborigines in concentration camps across the state where they could be kept under control. Many Stradbroke Islanders were sent to Cherbourg or Woorabinda or Palm Island.
It was Brisbane that decided the first sandmining on Straddie would take place in the 1950s. There was no consultation with Quandamooka or any other local peoples or no profits to them either. Mining came and nothing much changed until two groundbreaking events in 1993. The first was Mabo v Queensland (no 2) where, on the second attempt Mer man Eddie Mabo and his friends proved to the High Court they had customary title to the Murray Islands in Torres Strait. In response later that year Paul Keating pushed through a Native Title Act, a brave move that cost him much political capital (giving things to blacks remains electorally unpopular in Australia). Keating's Act provided for a national system which would recognise and protect native title, but needed to co-exist with the "land management system". For Straddie that meant co-existing with sand mining. Mabo had got them a seat at the negotiating table, and also overrode Queensland law.
The Quandamooka people lodged their land claims in two phases between 1995 and 1999. The Native Native Title tribunal registered both claims in 2000 (the second one three months before the first). The claims were slowed up by boundary disputes, needing a 2006 workshop of elders, lawyers and anthropologists to resolve the disputes. In the meantime, the main mining lessees expired in October 2007. Two days after the close date, Lessee Stradbroke Rutile Ltd (owned by Consolidated Rutile) applied for a 21 continuation of lease. In 2009 both companies were gobbled up by Belgian company Sibelco, a "raw material producer" for the world manufacturing market.
In January 2010, the Federal Court asked the National Native Title Tribunal to facilitate negotiations with the State Government, local government and other interested parties to finalise an Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA). Sibelco nominated its subsidiary Unimin to negotiate a separate ILUA with the Quandamooka. In mid 2010 Unamin's "offer" to the Quandamooka involved the long-term operation of the mines until 2035 and another in 2050 and they also wanted their support in their lease negotiations with the state government.
The Quandamooka came back with a counter offer. They split the ILUA in two, firstly a complex one that would deal with future mining and might take many years to agree on, called "a Future Acts ILUA", and the secondly a simple one to have greement on the ground once the Federal Court judges on the native title claim. They also refused to be the meat in the sandwich on the leases and advised Unamin/Sibelco to sort it out with the government and come back to them for consent.
In April 2011 the Bligh Labor government passed the North Stradbroke Island Protection and Sustainability Act (NSIPSA Act) which gave effect to key elements of the ILUA between Queensland and the Quandamooka. It approved mining on Straddie until the end of 2019 at which time full native title rights would return to the Quandamooka.
The ILUA was signed almost three years ago to the day, 15 June 2011. In what was proving a historic year, the Federal Court handed down its Native Title judgment in July 2011. For the first time, a court had recognised that Quandamooka law and customs had survived colonisation. Judge Dowsett said the Quandamooka were a "pre-sovereign society" who had maintained connections with Straddie and the adjoining sea (though not with adjoining islands or the mainland). He also noted Sibelco, Telstra and other big stakeholders were adopting the state's submissions. The National Native Tribunal ratified the claim on 11/11/11 making it the law of the land.
But Judge Dowsett was too sanguine about Sibelco's intentions. With a state election coming up in 2012 and a likely change of government they did as all good mining companies do and ran a political scare campaign to get their original position back on the table. They focussed their campaign in the crucial seat of Ashgrove where Campbell Newman was running to become premier from outside parliament. Labor environment minister Kate Jones held the seat but it was Newman's scalp they wanted. Newman duly proposed to extend sand mining to 2035 if the LNP took power. During the campaign Newman told the ABC Labor had acted in "a unilateral and capricious way" by bringing forward the end of mining in its 2011 law which was "all about green preferences". Neither interviewer nor Newman made any mention of the traditional owners and Newman had no contact with the Quandamooka before his announcement.
Sibelco's PR company Rowland would later win a PR state award for excellence demonstrating "achieving environmental and economic progress in an island community". Rowland's other reward was another fat contract after Newman's landslide election win. Without changing any laws, the new Mining Minister ruled mining would stay to 2035. Still the government had not contacted the Quandamooka. In October 2013 the government brought in the North Stradbroke Island Protection and Sustainability and Another Act Amendment Bill 2013. The new NSIPSAAA Bill offered Sibelco security to 2035 with fewer environmental provisions.
When the bill went to the agriculture, resources and environment committee, the Quandamooka could finally respond as the native title holders. The committee report admitted the government had not consulted the Quandamooka on NSIPSAAA, which breached the Queensland Legislative Standards Act 1992. Despite this, the Bill became law in Queensland's unicameral chamber on 20 November. Without consent, it had changed a range of matters previously agreed with the Quandamooka.
In March this year, the fight-back began. Elders gave their assent for the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation to launch a High Court Challenge to Queensland's 2013 Straddie law. They say the law overturning the 2011 law contravenes Keating's Native Title Act 1993. The section of constitutional law is S109 which says if a state law is inconsistent with a Commonwealth law the latter shall prevail and the former "shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be invalid". The legal battle will surely be on the extent of the consistency between the two acts.
Whatever happens, the dignified Aboriginal elders outside the High Court yesterday won the moral battle. Their dancers performed a smoking ceremony where they blessed their own people and all other by-standers, including the media filming the ceremony. "It your job," a Quandamooka dancer told them – us, me – "to tell the world". These people are proving that dignity very much matters.
On Utopia, John Pilger's no-place-land
Finally caught up with Utopia, John Pilger's simplistic but important documentary on Australia's relationship with its Indigenous people. Nuance has never been Pilger's strong point but pitching his film at his mainly British audience ("this is Canberra, capital of Australia"), he misses out on vast swathes of context. Pilger is good at capturing the injustices of colonisation but far less strong in dealing with issues of decolonisation.
The name of his documentary, Utopia, is a whitefella word. Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia described an ideal society that could never be reached. Formed from Greek roots, it meant either 'no-place-land' or 'good-place-land'. And while Utopian now means a perfect state, Utopia itself is 'nowhere'. Such sophistry meant nothing to the people of Uturupa in northern Australia who were ignorant of all things European for hundreds of centuries. The first settlers came in the 1880s and unable to handle Uturupa, they called it Utopia, perhaps as Pilger suggested out of the irony of such a difficult land, for this no-place-land was hard on black and white alike. But it was the blacks who suffered most.
Pilger begins his film in modern Utopian settings. The Palm beach penthouse and the leafy suburbs of Canberra's Barton are the drop-off point for Pilger's polemicism starkly contrasting with Utopia's poverty (though the warm sun basked poor and wealthy alike). Barton was named for Australia's first prime minister Edmund Barton who ushered in the openly racist White Australia Policy keeping coloured people out, while the blacks who were already here were not counted.
Pilger's first interview is with former Labor minister of Indigenous health and NT MP Warren Snowden. Snowden stupidly turned the interview in a defence of Labor's record and got angry when Pilger suggests they should have done more. Of course, they should have; but successive administrations have been unable to solve Indigenous health problems, caused by a legacy of 200 years of hatred and neglect. After Indigenous people were finally counted in the 1971 census, successive Closing the Gap reports have at least identified where the problems are in comparison to the rest of Australia and it will be another 50 years or more before they can be fully closed. Not that Pilger with his "puerile questions" and demands for instant change, appreciates that.
The trouble with Utopia is that Pilger is like a kid in a toy shop rushing from one shiny bauble to another. Here he is in the Australian War Memorial bemoaning the lack of recognition of the Australian frontier war, there he is recollecting his own Sydney childhood watching poor Aboriginal people in La Perouse, then he attacking Howard's history wars before heading out on the street for an Australia Day vox pop of white people on what Indigenous people think of the day. A minute later he is touring Rottnest Island's grisly black penal history. All are important issues but glossed over in Pilger's rush to create an atmosphere of condemnation.
He brings black brutality up to date with the 2008 arrest of Aboriginal man Mr Ward in Laverton, WA. This is a disgraceful case that demands greater attention. Arrested for drink driving and denied bail by the local JP, Mr Ward was remanded to appear in court in Kalgoorlie 400kms away. As far back as 1975 the WA Aboriginal Legal Service had complained prisoner transport vans were "ovens on wheels" and nothing had changed by 2008 except the service was privatised. Mr Ward was given a 600ml bottle of water for the four hour journey while temperatures rose to 56 degrees inside the van. When the driver checked his welfare in Kalgoorlie, he was dead on the floor with a large abdomen burn in contact with the hot surface. The coroner noted he had been cooked to death and the department and company (4GS) were later fined for their neglect.
The responsible minister Margaret Quirk was clearly genuinely distressed by the case which she told Pilger would haunt her for rest of her life. His cynicism at her suggestion of departmental cultural sensitivity training was unwarranted, as it was clear that many public servants simply have no idea what happens in remote Aboriginal settlements and the injustices they face on a regular basis. Pilger was right to point out the high indigenous incarceration rates but on less firm ground with his description of WA and NT as 'apartheid states'. He need not have been so strident on the high moral ground. Quirk's point is that there are structural issues across society that led to Mr Ward's death and many like him, that one well intentioned Minister cannot solve alone. However state politicians can be rightly condemned for their 'law and order' posturing on mandatory sentencing which overwhelmingly affects Indigenous populations who are usually arrested on public order offences.
Pilger addressed the touchstone case of the 1960s Gurindji land rights strike. The strike was called when the government delayed equal pay by two years following a court case. However the net result was that white owners sacked their cheap black workforce rather than pay them equally. The Gurindji got their Watties Creek but lost their jobs. By the 1970s, a whole generation of stockworkers were unemployed and homeless, drifting towards the towns and the welfare system.
Welfare was a well-intentioned but deeply flawed aspect of decolonisation as part of the Whitlamite reforms of the 1970s. It led to large amounts of money spent on community programs that offered no real sense of achievement. It was 'sit down money' and led to the perverse situation described by Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton and Peter Sutton of dysfunctional societies twisted by easy access to alcohol and drugs while domestic sexual abuse was rampant. The Lateline case exposed by Chris Graham and noted in depth by Pilger may have been exaggerated but the problems identified by Little Children Are Sacred were not. The Howard Government had its own cynical electoral aims for the Intervention but significantly the Labor Government that followed did not dismantle it. As Pearson says, the left are strong on rights and the right are strong on responsibilities, but good Indigenous policy needs to be a mix of both. Pilger, in his faraway British eyrie, shows no sign of understanding this crucial point.
Nonetheless I applaud Utopia as an important conversation starter. The best white writer on Indigenous matters, the anthropologist Bill Stanner, identified as far back as 1968 the culture of deliberate forgetting that characterised Australian views of its Indigenous population. They were written out of the history and they had little say in the present as a voiceless 2% modern minority. Indigenous people did slowly find their voice through the freedom ride, the referendum campaign, the tent embassy, the Makaratta treaty campaigns, and the land rights battles of the 1980s and 1990s.
But what of the present where casual racism, like casual sexism, remains an open sore? Where is the Indigenous conscience in 2014? I agree with Pilger we need some form of constitutional recognition but it must be in tandem with responsibility. Post-Intervention, the Stannerite silence is returning and if nothing else Pilger's work is deafening in the dark. Let's hope he inspires a more informed conversation on what remains Australia's deepest wound to its psyche.
A mission to Cherbourg
All Brisbane roads seemed to lead to Southbank yesterday. Most were headed towards Grey Street where a royal frenzy was taking place over some British tourists. My destination was nearby but more sedate, the reading room of the State Library where I looked out over the Brisbane River, dazzling in the April sunshine. I was there to take notes from a book, Thom Blake's A Dumping Ground: A History of the Cherbourg settlement. The book covers the first 40 or so years of the settlement and the small town in the South Burnett has interested me greatly in 2014. I've been there twice this year and will be back a third time next Sunday for a "reconciliation fun run" which in my case may be practical reconciliation or impractical given my recent poor exercise regime.
Reconciliation is an odd theme for a fun run, but Cherbourg is not a run of the mill town. It is Queensland's oldest surviving Aboriginal reserve, and is still home to over 1000 mostly Indigenous Australians. It has its own Aboriginal shire, alcohol restrictions and is not without some of the problems that plague many Indigenous towns like high unemployment, crime and bored kids (all inter-related). There is only one road in and out of Cherbourg, a relic of a time not long gone when Aboriginal lives were managed completely by white officialdom. Cherbourg has a dark past but has survived as a strong outpost of Indigenous culture. It is not without its sense of dignity, most notable when it celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2004. There are great people there like Aunty Sandra Morgan who turned the dilapidated old ration shed into Australia's finest Indigenous museum. I was engrossed by the ration shed when I went there in February and I promised them I would be back for the fun run they are organising. It speaks to a community with a future as well as a past.
It is a long and often difficult past, and one that stretches back into the 19th century. It starts in 1895 with Archibald Meston, a former politician, a journalist, a businessman and a self-proclaimed expert in indigenous affairs. The frontier wars were mostly over in Queensland by then but the question was what to do with landless Aboriginals that survived the slaughter. Meston claimed he wanted 'save that unhappy race' and his solution was to create two new reserves, one in the south of the state, the other in the north. The watchwords would be control and discipline, and it would involve complete isolation from the white population. The problem was that Queensland had tried reserves but failed and the authorities were not immediately keen to try again. They asked Meston to examine the work of the missions and report back.
In the meantime, Queensland enacted a law that was to have profound consequences for Indigenous Queenslanders. The 1897 Aboriginal Protection and Restrictions on the Sale of Opium Act, was to become so emblematic of the state, it became simply known as the Queensland Act. "Protection" sounded like a good thing but it was section 9 of the Act that gave it menace. It gave the Home Affairs minister authorisation to "remove" Aborigines to reserves in the district. Once these reserves were established, the Minister would do the removing with Meston looking over his shoulder, believing that stern measures were necessary for the "effective protection" of Aborigines. The first reserve was at Fraser Island, with 51 Indigenes removed from Maryborough. The remote island proved an administrative nightmare, and after three years it was handed over to the Anglican Board of Mission.
Cherbourg, then known as Barambah (until the 1930s), was first mooted in 1899 by Salvation Army missionary William Thompson. Thompson lived in Nanango, the heart of the quickly growing South Burnett region. The first two reserves he proposed were blocked by either settlers who didn't want Aboriginal neighbours, or the railway board who needed the land for the South Burnett line. Eventually Thompson found a 2800ha block at Barambah Station, and the reserve was gazetted in 1901. He persuaded some local Wakka Wakkas to settle there and the government threw in 60 more when they closed down Durundur camp, after complaints from residents in nearby Woodford. Thompson was more interested in saving souls than improving conditions which were primitive in early Barambah. There were no provisions and just tents for houses. Fate intervened in September 1904 when Thompson was incapacitated after a horse-riding accident and had to hand control to the government. It was this time that the 100th anniversary celebrated not Thompson's earlier start in 1901.
The government hired the former superintendent at Durundur, Albert Tronson, to be the new superintendent at Barambah. Tronson did not have Thompson's religious scruples and was determined to make the new reserve work. Drawing on lessons from his time at Durundur, that meant it had to be economically self-sufficient. Despite over 800 hectares of arable land, Tronson felt agriculture wouldn't work but he saw a different opportunity in the explosion of new white settlers to the region.
Tronson put his black workforce at the service of the new settlers and the South Burnett would grow wealthy on the back of cheap labour. Demand for Barambah workers exceeded supply. Still, the whites did not like the large concentration of native Australians in their midst and the Kingaroy paper denounced the government for sending "notorious and scoundrelly aboriginals" to the region. But the government was delighted by the success of their project and by 1910, Barambah was mostly self-supporting. By then too the population had surged from 300 to 1000. As long as they were working, Tronson's laissez faire approach meant there was little unrest and a lot of freedom of movement.
All that changed with the appointment of a new Chief Protector of Aborigines JW Bleakley. Bleakley strongly believed in isolating blacks from whites and actively promoted removal to the reserves. Tribes from all parts of Queensland, and even some from Cummeragunja in southern NSW ended up in a pot-pourri of nations at Barambah. Bleakley ordered removals to avoid the scourge of miscegenation, and it was also a means of control. Some were removed for ridiculous reasons like the two Coen women who were 'dangerously affected by the moon' and while Taroom residents asked for the removal of half-caste Carbo who went frequently through the town "mixing with members of our little community." Refusal to work for whites was a common reason for removal. Laziness was not tolerated and Cherbourg, and later Palm Island and Woorabinda would be where Aboriginal criminals finished their sentences. Bleakley made sure the primary purpose of such places were to reform, subjugate and dominate the inmates.
Bleakley's mission was not entrepreneurial so he did not care about Tronson's system of outside work assignments. Bleakley preferred to keep Aborigines on the settlement and away from whites, though because they were indispensable to the South Burnett economy, many continued as semi-slave labourers. Bleakley's purpose was to shake all remnants of Aboriginal culture out of them, so he set up children's dorms where they would be away from the parents and their native ways. The attached school had a purpose too but it was not to educate. Oddly the lack of learning had precisely the opposite effect than intended. Children filled the gaps with lessons in their own culture, which continued to be handed down – though now in secret. In public, the education was meant to instil the virtues of cleanliness, discipline and order. There were weekly inspections where any trace of dirt was punished. Still, it wasn't clean enough to keep away Spanish flu in 1919 and there were 143 deaths in 1000 people – seven times the Australian average.
The death rate remained high in the 1920s due to non-existent sewerage and poor diet. In 1918, authorities paid for a reticulation system by withholding money from Aboriginal salaries, but for 20 years it only covered the hospital. The food was atrocious and the superintendent admitted buying lumpy meat unfit for whites but hinted that blacks should not turn their noses up at it. Doctor after doctor visiting the settlement remarked upon the appalling diet but their protests fell on deaf ears. From 1901 to 1940, you were four times more likely to die than the average Australian, if your home was Barambah.
Renamed as Cherbourg in 1931, it suffered particularly badly in the Depression, with demand for labour falling off completely. Those that did work had most of their wages confiscated. 20% went to administration and in 1930 there was an additional 5% levy for improvements to the reserve. In practice the stolen wages went further, as they were paid into trust accounts managed by whites who couldn't help either using the funds to do further maintenance or simply line their own pockets.
The blacks were left with pocket money and were encouraged to barter for services. They wouldn't dare ask about their wages, because that was 'cheeky' behaviour and would lead to punishment like jail, or worse still, removal to another settlement. Barambah blacks lived in constant fear of being sent to Palm Island or Woorabinda, and similar threats existed at the other two settlements. All routine and mundane tasks on the settlements were done by inmates minimising the cost to the government.
The aim was to strip inmates of all respect and dignity, and create a cheap and compliant labour force. They had restricted freedom of movement, unless they had the 'dog tag' which allowed some rights but required papers, which could be inspected at any time and also removed. There was no chance that anyone could escape the grind or get to own property. World War II brought a renewed sense of optimism but it was crushed again in the relentless assimilation of the 1950s. Queensland has the strongest reserve system in Australia but it was also the slowest state to react to the changing tide of decolonisation in the 1960s. The Queensland Act was abandoned in 1965 but it wasn't until 1972 that restrictions on freedom of movement were lifted in Cherbourg.
By then the local MP, a strange, awkward New Zealand-born Danish Lutheran named Joh Bjelke Petersen had become accidental premier of Queensland. It was Joh who would later claim that Queensland's Aborigines lived "on the clover" and would become as rich as the sheiks of Arabia. His constituents in Cherbourg have yet to see the oil. But according to Sandra Morgan, they would see Joh once every three years, looking for the settlement vote. He also used Cherbourg workers on his farm at Bethany who were paid, again according to Sandra Morgan with a wry smile, "peanuts".
Today Cherbourg is run by its own shire council. Like many Aboriginal councils it has been plagued with problems and has a small pool of talent from which to choose. In my view, Sandra Morgan should be on that council as a strong woman and a terrific role model for the region. Morgan was born and raised on Cherbourg and also has strong links to the Bwgcolman culture of Palm Island through her husband. It was her vision that led to a team of workers rescuing the old ration shed and moving it up the hill to renovate it as a museum. "We used to get food here," Sandra told me, "now it's food for thought." The ration shed museum stands as in proud testament to Aboriginal culture, something that Europeans tried to kill at Cherbourg and failed. I'm looking forward to the pain of a seven kilometre run there next Sunday.


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Last year's winner of the Mackey Award, which goes to the nation's most outstanding tight end, fell in the hands of Clemson's Dwayne Allen. The Rimington Trophy was presented to David Molk, who was thought to be the best center in college football by the Boomer Esiason Foundation.
Plenty more award watch lists will unravel throughout the next several weeks.
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Michael Williams, Alabama
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Kim Kardashian struck a pose today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ... in front of the famous statue of Jesus Christ, Christ the Redeemer.
This is as close to a virgin birth as Kim will ever get.
My comment below is so messed up
What a piece of TRASH. F you and your chipmunk cheeked ******* boyfriend.
Hay-zeus Kreesto ama a todos!
She looks hideous in that dress. Way to taint one of the most amazing works of art!
Kanye is being treated like an old fashion wench.
As someone who has actually been to Rio De Janeiro and seen that statue, that is the pose that everyone does in front of that statue. She's traveling the world, while most of those making negative comments don't even own a passport.
i dont know how shes going to swing this into something that SHE THINKS makes sense...how dare her even think she can pose in a position which our good lord suffered and died....THIS WILL COME BACK ON HER 10X FOLD....stupid bitch...
"Persian Trash"
This dumb ass says her divorce is stressful.... Traveling on a plane all over the place is worse for her!!! OMG!! This girl SUCKS!!!! Ugh!!!
Let's not forget that this creatures notoriety developed from her own attempt at amateur porn. She is no great beauty, as a matter of fact she is pigmy sized with a ginourmous fat ass and a full time electrolysis team that does nothing but stave off her face, chest and ass fur.
She is so off her rocker...Does she actually think she is a Christian? She needs to worry how where she is going to spend eternity, and stop misleading young women into thing she is leading a Christian life.
I'm not even baptized and I'm DEEPLY offended.
****ing Sacrilegious WHORE!
I finally have the perfect theme song for KK, PIG's ON A WING, Pink Floyd!!!
I really hope by way of all the negative views on KK that at some point the media will STOP showing this PIG on the Internet and news!!!! I always see more haters especially since she has never done one thing accept offering felacio to anyone that will get her in the news, PLEASE STOP with this Blasphemous BITCH and get her out of the news, maybe if a truck ran her over it would be news worthy! All she does is go shopping and press takes photo's, come on TMZ has much hotter women that actually do something for a living!
The more I see of her, the more I realize she really is a disgusting human being.


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