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Bonyi Bush BooksGovernor William Bligh and the 1808 Rum RebellionThis piece of shit Bligh family dawgs
2024-04-1107 min
Bonyi Bush BooksGilburri 1856A description of Gilburri cooking up a snake, swinging across a creek and duck hunting on the 1855/56 Northern Australia Expedition.
"The Australian blacks eat snakes of every kind, as well as any small animals they cancatch; and we have often seen fellows whose sole apparel consisted of a snake girdedround their waist, with two or three rats hitched by their tails to it. We were taught the
orthodox way of cooking them by a first-rate fellow, John Fahy, an Irishman, who had beennearly fourteen years among the blacks.
He first let the flame expend itself, and then spread out the...
2024-04-1103 min
Bonyi Bush BooksMining by Aborigines – Australia's first
minersWhile 1997 was the bicentenary of mining in
Australia by people of European descent, the
history of mining in this country stretches back
much further.
For more than 40 000 years before the arrival of
the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour, Australian
Aborigines had been mining the land for ochre and
stone.
Aborigines depended on their stone implements to
gather and process their food; ochre was a vital
ingredient in art and religious practices; quarries
and ‘processing’ sites were developed to cater for
the demand for these products; and transport
routes were established to allow for their trade.
While ochre and stone of one...
2024-04-1007 min
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Concept of Mass Killing in Australian History: 1788 - 1930: (2023) Part TwoPart Two We will set out a terminological ecosystem of mass killing, develop a typology with semantics, and propose a methodology to investigate any instance of a mass killing event as a contextual referent within the process of enforced displacive occupation in Australia between 1788 and 1930. We will assert that a mass killing event can apply to a series of single homicides bound together by common purpose over prescribed time, scaling to the destruction of Aboriginal society across the continent, a testable hypothesis. We conclude that mass killing as a normalised pathological behaviour is not limited to homicide, but also includes...
2024-04-0756 min
Bonyi Bush BooksAboriginal Breast PlatesFor Indigenous people today, breastplates have mixed meanings. While they are rare evidence of named individuals links to places across Australia, they are also linked to the dispossession of their land.
2024-04-0530 min
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Concept of Mass Killing in Australian History: 1788 - 1930: (2023) Part OneThe Concept of Mass Killing in Australian History: 1788 - 1930 Abstract: We will set out a terminological ecosystem of mass killing, develop a typology with semantics, and propose a methodology to investigate any instance of a mass killing event as a contextual referent within the process of enforced displacive occupation in Australia between 1788 and 1930. We will assert that a mass killing event can apply to a series of single homicides bound together by common purpose over prescribed time, scaling to the destruction of Aboriginal society across the continent, a testable hypothesis. We conclude that mass killing as a normalised pathological behaviour...
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Bonyi Bush BooksGilburri interview with Alex Easton on ABC Sunshine Coast Breakfast Show (18-Nov-2023)My interview with Alex Easton went pretty good
2023-12-1311 min
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Bonyi Bush BooksThe murder of William Stepbhens in 1966 at Mooloolah.The murder of William Stephens in 1866 at Mooloolah
It is useful to set the scene. In February 1866 the Gympie gold rush was two years in the future and the Gympie Road did not exist. There was a settlement at
Mooloolah Heads started by William Pettigrew. It was largely a base for the shipping of timber cut in the hinterland. William Grigor and James Lowe ran a store there where the basic rations could be purchased. Pettigrew ran steamships on the coastal run between Brisbane and Mooloolah Heads, his major vessel at the time being the Gneering. The hinterland was divided...
2023-10-1111 min
Bonyi Bush BooksThe British king's and queens who supported and profited from slavery.Putrid inbred dawgs
2023-09-2107 min
Bonyi Bush BooksExperiences of Aboriginal girls at Parramatta Female Orphan SchoolThis audiobook is extremely hard to listen to as I have a personal connection to this horror. In 1859 the two Kabi daughters of Gilburri were abducted from K'gari and taken to Sydney. The eldest girl was named Kitty and she was approximately 15 years of age. The younger bub was called Maria and she was around 9 years old.
Shortly after arriving in Sydney, Kitty fell sick with influenza and would die 8 months later. 😰
Maria now all alone was sent to the Parramatta Female Orphan School to be trained as a domestic slave. There is not much written about Maria only that she...
2023-08-3048 min
2023-08-2434 min
Bonyi Bush BooksCaptain Arthur Phillip: The Founder of Aboriginal DispossessionWhen Britain appointed Captain Arthur Phillip as leader of the First Fleet to Australia and
Governor of the new colony of New South Wales, he was given certain draft instructions......
'"You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an intercourse with the natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all our subjects to live in amity and kindness with them; and if any of our subjects shall wantonly destroy them, or give them an unnecessary interruption in the exercise of their several occupations, it is our will and pleasure that you do cause such offenders to be...
2023-08-0956 min
Bonyi Bush BooksRediscovered Route Of The Mackay Expidtion 1860REDISCOVERED ROUTE OF THE MACKAY EXPEDITION, 1860
by John D. Kerr, B.Sc.
Presented to a Meeting of the Society on 24 July 1980
This is a companion document to the Andrew Murray Squatter Diary that offers more information into the Mackay Expidtion in 1860.
2023-08-0348 min
Bonyi Bush BooksAndrew Murray's Squatter Diary 1859 to 1860 PART TWOAndrew Murray was a Scottish squatter from New England who took up runs in Queensland in 1860, first at Mackay, then on Rosetta Creek in central Queensland. This is his unpublished diary starting in 1859. *WARNING: This man was a putrid and uses racist language in this diary.
#StopBorumbaHydro #SaveEungella
2023-08-021h 12
Bonyi Bush BooksAndrew Murray Squatter Diary 1859 to 1860 PART ONEAndrew Murray was a Scottish squatter from New England who took up runs in Queensland in 1860, first at Mackay, then on Rosetta Creek in central Queensland. This is his unpublished diary starting in 1859. *WARNING: This man was a putrid and uses racist language in this diary.
#StopBorumbaHydro #SaveEungella
2023-08-021h 08
Bonyi Bush BooksQueensland Governments Offset PolicyThis is truely terrifying.....
#stopborumbahydro #qldhydro #saveyabbacreek #
Introduction
Areas of high environmental value (for example habitat for vulnerable species) sometimes coincide with sites of particular value to industry, such as the presence of natural resources or proximity to infrastructure. Environmental offsets (offsets) may be used to counterbalance significant residual impacts from particular activities on particular matters of national, state or local environmental significance.
Under a number of existing Queensland laws, offsets may be required for certain activities where there is an unavoidable impact on significant environmental values. To counterbalance this loss, offsets, which include improvement and protection of alternative sites...
2023-08-0224 min
2023-07-2809 min
Bonyi Bush BooksSueño de pez pulmonado.Esta es una historia de la creación del río Mary que se encuentra en Queensland, Australia. esta historia ha sido traducida al español para nuestros hermanos indígenas sudamericanos con quienes tenemos vínculos de ADN en el Amazonas Chile, Perú, Colombia y Brasil. esto es para la tribu mapuche de Chile con quienes hemos formado una alianza tribal. la araucaria de América del Sur en realidad se llama árbol bonyi en nuestro idioma. somos el pueblo Kabi del Río María.
Mi nombre es gilburri. Esperamos que disfrutes de esta historia de la creación y por fav...
2023-07-2709 min
Bonyi Bush BooksEl sueño del río MaryEsta es una historia de la creación del río Mary que se encuentra en Queensland, Australia. esta historia ha sido traducida al español para nuestros hermanos indígenas sudamericanos con quienes tenemos vínculos de ADN en el Amazonas Chile, Perú, Colombia y Brasil. esto es para la tribu mapuche de Chile con quienes hemos formado una alianza tribal. la araucaria de América del Sur en realidad se llama árbol bonyi en nuestro idioma. somos el pueblo Kabi del Río María.
Mi nombre es gilburri. Esperamos que disfrutes de esta historia de la creación y por fav...
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2023-06-131h 06
Bonyi Bush BooksAqua Biology: The Australian LungfishAustralian lungfish
The Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) is listed under the EPBC Act as vulnerable and a
recovery plan has been drafted (DCCEEW, 2017).
It is also a no-take species under the Fisheries Act 1994. The species was eligible for listing as vulnerable given (DotE, 2014): as a result of past changes to its core habitat, it is suspected that the recruitment to the adult breeding population has been, and is still, unsustainably low; and that the species is likely to undergo a substantial population reduction over the next three generations.
The species also has a limited geographic distribution that is precarious for its...
2023-06-1320 min
Bonyi Bush BooksQld Path To Trickery: Total BullshitKabi people reject this treaty
Government agencies and public institutions will support the truth telling and treaty making process to facilitate access to records that help communities prepare for and engage in Treaty negotiations.
Ms Atkinson said advocated now have a collective opportunity "to build awareness among all Queenslanders, to respect the idea of truth-telling and to recognise the impacts of colonisation on the First Nations peoples of this State, but also their resilience and strength".
"It will be that resilience and strength that gets us through some hard conversations", she said.
2023-06-131h 00
Bonyi Bush BooksThe South American Bonyi Tribes with Graham HancockAt the time of Spanish arrival, the Araucanian Mapuche inhabited the valleys between the Itata and Toltén rivers.
The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia
Araucaria araucana, commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, piñonero, pewen or Chilean pine, is an evergreen tree growing to a trunk diameter of 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) and a height of 30–40 m (98–131 ft). It is native to central and southern Chile and western Argentina.
The South American lungfish, also known as the American mud-fish and scaly salamanderfish. is the single species of lungfis...
2023-05-312h 45
Bonyi Bush BooksDeebing Creek Heritage Assessment Audiobook part twoPART TWO: AUDIOBOOK runtime: 2hr 23mins
This report is a brief and overall assessment of the cultural, historical, archaeological, spiritual andenvironmental value of the undeveloped sectors still in their natural state around Deebing Creek.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following reportcontains names and images of deceased persons.
Note: The terms Aboriginals and Aborigines are not favoured by many of those they are meant todescribe. Some prefer other designations like Indigenous, First Nations, Natives, Original Peoples,Originals, Sovereign Originals, Original Sovereigns, Original Tribes, Original Mobs, TraditionalOwners, Traditional Custodians, Murries / Goories / Koories, or various names in...
2023-05-172h 23
Bonyi Bush BooksDeebing Creek Heritage Assessment part oneAUDIOBOOK runtime: 1hr 57mins
This report is a brief and overall assessment of the cultural, historical, archaeological, spiritual andenvironmental value of the undeveloped sectors still in their natural state around Deebing Creek.
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following reportcontains names and images of deceased persons.
Note: The terms Aboriginals and Aborigines are not favoured by many of those they are meant todescribe. Some prefer other designations like Indigenous, First Nations, Natives, Original Peoples,Originals, Sovereign Originals, Original Sovereigns, Original Tribes, Original Mobs, TraditionalOwners, Traditional Custodians, Murries / Goories / Koories, or various names in their respectivelanguages.
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2023-05-0425 min
Bonyi Bush BooksWar in the Bonyi Scrub: Kabi Mob vs Widgee Squatters by GilburriThis is an account of the development of a tiny rural settlement in Queensland from the late 1840s when the squatter invasion was just beginning. During this period, the small settlement of Widgee Widgee developed from one of the last outposts of civilisation in the virtually unknown bush. Widgee, as the place is now called, is part of the Kilkivan Shire, and not the Widgee Shire which surrounds the town of Gympie.The township lies nestled in among spurs of the Great Divide about 20 kilometres west of Gympie. However, to begin this story, we must go back to the...
2023-04-2657 min
Bonyi Bush BooksBogimbah Creek Mission: The First Aboriginal Experiment by Fiona FoleyBogimbah Creek Mission: The First Aboriginal Experiment: book launch by Fiona Foley.
As the Inaugural Monica Clare Research Fellow, Dr Fiona Foley’s research project, Bogimbah Creek Mission: the First Aboriginal Experiment retells a significant yet forgotten aspect of Queensland’s history. From 1897 to 1904, Archibald Meston, first Protector of Aboriginals in Southern Queensland, removed 51 Badtjala people from Maryborough to Fraser Island (K’gari) to set up the Bogimbah Creek Mission as an experiment in segregation.
Dr Foley’s book of the same name, Bogimbah Creek Mission: the First Aboriginal Experiment, was launched at the event by Associate Professor Sandra Phillips...
2023-04-1558 min
Bonyi Bush BooksSallyanne Atkinson in Cherbourg, Wakka Wakka country April 2023 - full meetingPointing and winking at elders, telling mob not to interrupt the treaty body .... When raising confronting questions mob are told, "you don't have to be involved". This is already a disastor.#sallyanneatkinson
2023-04-141h 09
Bonyi Bush BooksQLD Path To Treaty Circus - 27th March 2023Fall video - https://youtu.be/3-2GMU0fOxw
gilburri's links - https://linktr.ee/gilburri
2023-04-0705 min
Bonyi Bush BooksSallyanne Atkinson and the QLD Interim Truth and Treaty Circus - March 2023Sallyanne Atkinson makes her debut speech for the QLD Path To Treaty Bill committee.
Full video https://youtu.be/C78jYPtQ6Eg
2023-04-0709 min
Bonyi Bush BooksGonorrhea ANZACS by GilburriGreat Grandfather Norman, ANZAC hero.
Video here - https://youtu.be/sjVDNwoGv-4
2023-03-1621 min
Bonyi Bush BooksGurridyula Gaba Wunggu (fan edit)Five deadly original songs from waddanangu warrior Gurridyula Gaba Wunggu.
1. Today
2. Onamission
3. Go beast
4. Gear'd Up
5. Dead Parrot
https://www.facebook.com/coodzmac/videos
2023-03-1113 min
Bonyi Bush BooksCooloola Great Walk: Rainbow Beach to Carlo Sandblow by GilburriI walk the sacred kululu pathway from Rainbow Beach to Carlo Sandblow on Kabi country. I remember the story of my ancestor who walked this place in 1852. i yarn about some Kabi history of kululu... Thomas King shipwreck , duramboi, the Wangabillie letter and warriors Mickelo, Dunroburri & Perikah.. This is deadly history that I speak of thru the eyes of Gilburri.
Watch the video of my walk. https://youtu.be/6gTRPmzpLAw
2023-03-0417 min
Bonyi Bush BooksLidia Thorpe in senate: The War Memorial, Aboriginal Gargoyles and The Frontier Wars with Gilburris reactionThe Australian War Memorial is a shrine that's meant to commemorate the sacrifice of those who have died in war in this country.
But this country's first wars - the Frontier Wars - are missing.
In parts of the Memorial, Aboriginal people are represented as gargoyles - with dirty rain water pouring out of our mouths.
Despite spending half- a- billion- dollars on redeveloping the Memorial, the gargoyles will stay.
Don’t you get it? Don’t you understand? We are the world’s oldest living culture, we are not just from t...
2023-02-2224 min
Bonyi Bush BooksQueensland Mounted Police Recruitment StrategiesRecruitment of troopers One of the infamous euphemisms researchers encounter when reviewing primary sources relating to the activities of the NMP is “dispersal”, which has been shown to refer to the shooting and killing of groups of Aboriginal people.9 We suggest here that another probable euphemism is the term “recruitment”. This innocuous phrase suggests an orderly process of enlisting willing employees, but deeper investigation suggests that the process was almost certainly not as innocent, straightforward or homogeneous as the term implies. Although likely to be incomplete, a survey of known recruitment events in the nineteenth century (see Table 1) reveals a range...
2023-02-0249 min
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Aftermath of Hornet Bank - War crimesThe event at Hornet Bank Station, inland from Maryborough on 27 October 1857 served as a catalyst for a violent European retaliation in South East Queensland upon a massive and merciless scale.
This letter by G.D. Lang is a vivid account of a cross-section of that reaction along the Hornet Bank — Maryborough axis, persisting for months after the original assault.
Maryborough, Wide Bay, 31 March 1858.
My Dear Uncle,
I write to you at the present moment.. . to make you acquainted with the proceedings of the Native Police Force in this district and of th...
2023-01-2610 min
Bonyi Bush BooksRaid of the Aboriginies by Wilkes 1846A poem, written for the entertainment and amusement of early settlers, and relating a series of incidents over a three day period during the campaign known as the Battle of One Tree Hill
2023-01-1826 min
Bonyi Bush BooksMary River Squatter George FurberHow Gilburri and his Kabi family remember Goerge Furber.
First of all in Furbers original statement says the attack occured 13th October 1847. in the court case five years later he says attack occured on the 20th October 1847. Furbers original statement and Wickham's warrent from 1847 never mention Durrugguree yet.
As a descendant of Gilburri I remember George Furber as an invader, liar, cheat and murderer. Furber was given a great opportunity by the Kabi people when they allowed him to set up a woolshed and store on the south bank of the Mary River, Tinana in la...
2023-01-1727 min
Bonyi Bush BooksQPS Truth; Brisbane Watchhouse Audio Leak November 2022Leaked audio reveals Queensland police staff in racist conversations, joking about violence to black people and protesters
Sun 13 Nov 2022
Audio recordings taken at the Brisbane city police watch house reveal officers joking about beating and burying black people, referring to Nigerians as “jigaboos”, and raising fears that Australia “will be fucking taken over”.
A series of tapes, leaked to Guardian Australia by a whistleblower, record several Queensland police service officers using racist slurs and offensive language while working in the holding cells.
The audio – which we have published below – features comments by several w...
2023-01-0533 min
Bonyi Bush BooksEliza FraserEliza Fraser.
As the first white woman to meet blackfullahs and to tell her tale, Eliza Fraser’s story was bound to have an impact. It has become a famous, archetypal encounter between a white woman and Australia’s Indigenous people and, from its earliest days, it was a powerful and influential tale that helped generate fear and prejudice about Aborigines and the frontier. Her tale of shipwreck on 21 May 1836, her 52 days with the Ka’bi people and her subsequent ‘rescue’ and return to white settlement on 22 August 1836 became so well known and so thoroughly worked over, that women...
2022-10-1341 min
Bonyi Bush BooksJames Morrill 1863: the audiobookSKETCH OF A RESIDENCE AMONG THE ABORIGINALS OF NORTHERN QUEENSLAND FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS; BEING A NARRATIVE OF MY LIFE, SHIPWRECK, LANDING, ON TIKI COAST, RESIDENCE AMONG THE ABORIGINALS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND MODE OF LIVING ; TOGETHER WITH NOTICES OF MANY OF ‘TILE NATURAL PRODUCTIONS, AND OF THE NATURE OF THIS COUNTRY,
BY JAMES MORRILL.
QUEENSLAND: PRINTED AT THE COURIER GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE, GEORGE-STREET, 1863,
NOTE.
I have so many invitations to wait on persons for the purpose of narrating my past sufferings, which were painful enough to pas...
2022-09-021h 35
Bonyi Bush BooksPrincess KgariFor many thousands of years the world's largest island sand mass was called K'gari, or ‘paradise’, by its inhabitants. Then, in 1836, a group of shipwreck survivors from the brig Stirling Castle found their way to its shores. The death of Captain Fraser, and his wife Eliza's ordeals on the island until her rescue, was to make the sort of news that was lapped up around the world. These events were to give the island a new name and a new notoriety, but the force of change that overtook the island so rapidly had already begun its inexorable course. It bega...
2022-09-011h 59
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Legend of the Lungfish
The Legend of the Lungfish
The story of Dhal’lara-Muru, the River Mermaid
The Legend: Wur’oo-guran’-ba (A long time ago in the second time), there was a beautiful young girl called Dhil’lara-Muru (one with long hair and nose) who used to sit alone by the river waters where she would Dup’pa (sing) and comb her Gam (head) and Dhil’la (hair) to rid herself of Mun’yooTooloom (Lice/Louse). She had been scarred by a fire and was wur’oo-yeev’areetheen’ee (shunned) by her people. She was Yin’na-Yinna (very sad and downhearted). She would jump into th...
2022-07-2936 min
Bonyi Bush BooksJohn Mortimer of Manumbar Station and the 1861 Native Police Inquiry by Malcolm D. PrentisFrom Brisbane Courier 16 March 1861.
To the Officer in Command of the Party of Native Police, who shot and wounded some Blacks on the Station of Manumbar, on Sunday, the 10th instant.
Sir, — If in future you should take a fancy to bring your troopers upon the Station of Manumbar on a sporting excursion we shall feel obLIged if you would either bag or bury the game which you shoot as it is far from pleasant for us to have the decomposing remains of four or five blackfellows laying unburied within a mUe or two of our head station. If you wi...
2022-07-291h 07
Bonyi Bush BooksInvasion of the Bunya Scrub By Colonial Idiot John Bidwell.To those who have followed or studied John Carne Bidwill’s career, there appear a number of events during his appointment as Wide Bay Crown Lands Commissioner that appear out of character for a clueless idiot of his education and experience.
His abilities as botanist, horticulturist and hybridist, in such early colonial days of Australia and New Zealand, are well accepted and praised by his peers, both then and now. However his term as the first Wide Bay Crown Lands Commissioner produced certain developments, in matters other than the professions mentioned above, that would tend to combine to...
2022-07-2449 min
Bonyi Bush Books‘No-Sir’ and ‘Tea-want-him’: Naming Noosa and King Tommy’s humourCentral to Noosa Shire’s identity are places that comprise it. How did they arrive at their names? As is true of place-naming in every part of Australia, there are many stories, some conflicting. Here we focus solely on placenames of the core area of Noosa and Tewantin. The story of these words focuses attention on an important 19th Century headman (major elder) known as ‘King Tommy.’
How Aboriginal place names were recorded Noosa Shire has many towns with local Indigenous names. The process by which these words became formally endorsed was haphazard. From the 1840s, German missio...
2022-07-2344 min
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Black War In QueenslandTHE BLACK WAR IN QUEENSLAND By ARTHUR LAURIE (Read before the Meeting of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland on October 23, 1958).The white man came and shot game and trespassed anywhere without permission. When a white man took up land or a station, he expected the blacks of that locality to move back into other territory, un- conscious that this would be an unpardonable violation of tribal laws, and involve immediate deadly warfare with the adjoining tribes. Rarely had any white man attempted to learn a dialect or understand the customs of these peculiar people and those who did ha...
2022-07-1750 min
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Kabi WarBroadly, the ‘Frontier Wars’ comprises the times of greatest hostility and conflict between Aboriginal groups and European invaders (settlers). For the region of the Sunshine Coast, it ran from the 1830s to 1870s, with worst incidents in the 1840s to 1860s – concurrent with the advancing tide of settlement of the district.
Sadly, our understanding of ‘Frontier Wars’ in Australia is marred by extreme vagueness, inaccuracy and hearsay. Rarely did perpetrators wish to detail their atrocities or offer exact coordinates and dates. Often, accounts of ‘outrages’ were either greatly exaggerated (if perpetrated by Indigenous people) or entirely hushed up if the perp...
2022-07-171h 00
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Forgotten Rebels part twoIn this part;
Jack Napoleon,
Dundalli,
Jandamurra
the Kalkadoons.
download eBook;
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/127.pdf
2022-07-171h 16
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Forgotten Rebels : part one
Windradyne of the Wirradjuri
Musquito and the Black Banditti
Yagan of the Nyungar,
by David Lowe
A collection of biographies of Aboriginal resistance fighters; chapters on Windradyne, Musquito, Yagan, Jack Napoleon, Dundalli, Jandamurra and the Kalkadoons.
Download the eBook;
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/resources/pdfs/127.pdf
2022-07-1745 min
Bonyi Bush BooksWild White Men in QueenslandWild White Men in Queensland.
By Cilento, Raphael and Lack, Clem (1959)
The First Wild White Men.
Pamphlett and Finnegan (April to December, 1823), and Parsons (April 1823 to September 1824) were the first white men known to have lived with the blackfullahs in what is now Queensland. The best known "wild white men" in the area between Moreton Bay, the Darling Downs, and the Burnett area, were:
John Sterry Baker. ("Boraltchou" or "Boralsha").
John Graham. ("Moilow").
David (Bracefield). (Bracefell). ("Wandi").
James Davis. ("Duram- boi"; "Dormboi"; "...
2022-07-1452 min
Bonyi Bush BooksTom Petrie's Reminiscenes of Early Queensland - Chapters 5 to 10Written by Constance Campbell Petrie, this invaluable work of social history vividly describes life in the Moreton Bay penal settlement from the 1830s." "Tom was over sixty years old when he told his life story to his daughter Constance
2022-07-132h 02
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Kabi Genocide - Deportation to BarambahThe Kabi Genocide - Deportation to Barambah
by Ray Gibbons (2019)
Queensland Aboriginals suffered a rolling genocide across multiple phases from invasion to deportation and repression, group by group, area by area. We deconstruct this fractal-like process in a companion volume.
For now, we will briefly focus on one particular language group (the Kabi of the Sunshine Coast) for one particular phase of Lemkinian repression (deportation and detention to Barambah).
Barambah near Murgon in traditional Waka Waka territory operated as an internment camp for Aboriginals who were rounded up from southeast Queensland, inclu...
2022-07-072h 24
Bonyi Bush BooksHarry Brown: Contribution of an Aboriginal guide in Australian explorationAuthor(s): Greg Blyton
Source: Aboriginal History, 2015, Vol. 39 (2015), pp. 63-82
In recent years there have been a number of important historical works which recognise the important contribution of Aboriginal guides in the exploration of Australia. This article contributes to this field by providing a narrative history of a young Aboriginal man from Newcastle called Harry Brown who accompanied the well-known Prussian explorer, Dr Ludwig Leichhardt, on two expeditions into the interior of Australia in the 1840s. Brown was a highly intelligent, resilient and skilful man who made an enormous contribution to Australian exploration, yet has...
2022-07-0644 min
Bonyi Bush Bookskgin gani - The Dreaming of Kin KinThe Dreaming of Kin Kin.
A story about the little black ants of Kin Kin.
In the ancestor time at War'pbunga-nga, the Land of the Frogs and Wub'onga-nga, the Land of the Mosses and ferns, there lived two little peoples called the Wa'baungi: the Frog People and the Wu'banga: the People who come out of the Moss.
They lived high in the great ceedar, beech and bunya trees where none could see or find them.
Their lands were in the east past the mountain places of Mu’dhaba, the Land of Sp...
2022-07-0112 min
Bonyi Bush BooksAboriginies of the Maroochy District - 1868 reportA Survey of Early Settlement in the Maroochy District
up to the Passing of the Crown Lands Alienation Act, 1868.
by E.G. heaps
ABORIGINES OF THE MAROOCHY DISTRICT
The early settlers in the Maroochy District were not long in the area before they came into contact with its native inhabitants, the Kabi, whose territory embraced the country drained by the Burrum, Mary, Maroochy, and Mooloolah Rivers and also Eraser and Bribie Islands.
As the Aborigines are said to have brought the dingo with them when they migrated to Australia, it i...
2022-07-011h 35
Bonyi Bush BooksThe Brisbane Mob - from Aboriginal PathwaysAboriginal Pathways in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River
by J.G. Steele
University of Queensland Press . 1982
The Brisbane Area.
This chapter considers the area in which the Turrbal language was spoken. Since the extent of this area has sometimes been disputed, let it be stated clearly that the
evidence of Tom Petrie is accepted here.
When challenged about the scope of the Turrbal area, Petrie replied, "The
Brisbane tribe - 'Turrubul' - extended as far south as the Logan River, and north to the P...
2022-07-0137 min
Bonyi Bush Bookskgung lulu - The Aboriginal History of CooloolaThe Aboriginal people of the area now known as Cooloola Shire spoke a language named Kabi after the word they used for 'No'. Dialects of this language were spoken among the Aboriginal groups who occupied particular territories from Childers in the north to Bribie Island in the south and west to the mountains that divide the Mary and Burnett Rivers.
Only fragments of information about the traditional lifestyles of the Aboriginal people of Cooloola have survived, though there is currently much interest in piecing together what remains. Archaeological studies carried out along the Cooloola Coast and at a...
2022-07-0156 min
Bonyi Bush BooksTom Petrie's Reminisces of Early Queensland - Chapter 1 to 5" Bon-yi," the native name for the pine, Araucaria Bidwilli, has been wrongly accepted and pronounced bunya. To the blacks it was bon-yi, the " i " being sounded as an " e " in English, "bon-ye." Grandfather (Andrew Petrie) discovered this tree, but he gave some specimens to a Mr. Bidwill, who forwarded them to the old country, and hence the tree was named after him, not after the true discoverer. Of this more anon.
The bon-yi tree bears huge cones, full of nuts, which the natives are very fond of. Each year the trees bear a few cones, but it was...
2022-07-011h 38
Bonyi Bush BooksGilburri - The John Fahy StoryGilburri
On Sunday 24 April, 1842, Fahy was able to escape again. One news report, written over sixty years after Fahy’s escape that day, said that he was able to knock out their obnoxious overseer, and commit him to a miserable death tied down to an ant's nest.
Over 80 years later Meston was to repeat the same story in his article Life Among Blacks. Convict records list only one man escaping from that area in April 1842, and that was John Fahy.
Fahy was able to move quickly into the bush and turned north, and ac...
2022-07-0131 min
Bonyi Bush BooksKabi Mob - by John Matthew 1865 to 1887The forest country was well wooded and abounded in marsupial game of several varieties. Native bears and opossums were very numerous, as were also kangaroos and wallabies, kangaroo rats and bandicoots. The streams were plentifully stocked with mullet, cat-fish, barramundi and eels. Along the sea-shore the usual produce of the Australian tropical seas was available. Of bird-life there were very many varieties, including large forms like the Native companion, the ibis, the forest turkey or bustard, and the emu. The country of the Wakka tribe is more level and open than that of the Kabi. It has little of...
2022-06-231h 07
2022-06-2317 min
Bonyi Bush BooksNamba - The Aboriginal History of NambourNAMBOUR is thousands of years old! Like many towns in Australia, it began as an Aboriginal camping ground that probably flourished on the same spot for millenia.
What was Nambour like before white settlement? The first white visitors describe a grassy, open forest flat (kept clear by regular Indigenous firing).
Namba flat” was roughly what we now know as Nambour Showgrounds – stretching south to around Quota Park. Such campsites were used by at least a few Aboriginal people all year around, but there was always a peak period of occupation, which matched times of important festiv...
2022-06-2309 min
Rained Out RantCastStereo Sessions #7 Gillburri from AustraliaThis episode I speak with Gilburri from Australia about war pigeons, Cov-ID, Biden and more!! Rainedoutrantcast.com
2021-01-211h 23