Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1773167683939/looky-looky-here-comes-cooky

Presenter, co-writer and slam poet Steven Oliver takes the audience on an incredible and scenic journey across Australia from the cliffs of Kurnell to the Torres Strait. As he travels the land interrogating Cook’s legacy, he poses the question – in 2020, does Australia have a blurred history of Cook?

(Thanks Buffy.)

Too Many Cooks: conflicting narratives in Australia’s visual histories

Join Professor Greg Lehman for a webinar to mark the launch of the online exhibition ‘Too Many Cooks’; chaired by Professor Ian Mclean, Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne, and including artists Julie Gough, Rew Hanks and Tom Nicholson.

Coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the visit by James Cook to the eastern coastline of the Australian continent, the exhibition ‘Too Many Cooks’ brings together works by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian artists to investigate tensions and contradictions at play in visual narratives of the foundation of contemporary Australia. Official and commercial acknowledgement of ’the beginnings of modern Australia’ continue to reinforce a colonial history that commences with Cook’s appearance on our shores in 1770 and is cemented by the later arrival of the First Fleet of British colonists. At the same time, the reality of prior occupation and subsequent dispossession of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is well-understood and its consequences underpin ongoing demands for justice and constitutional reform.

The figure of James Cook as hero/villain has been re-energised by current commemorative activity and debate, most recently raising questions about the status of monuments and the persistence of structural racism. Does the controversy over Cook’s legacy obscure the reality of his historical significance? Or are there several Captain Cooks; some of whom have little to do with exploration and Empire, instead symbolising Australia’s deep insecurity about its own national identity?

This event brings together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists and art historians to explore how the practice of artists has influenced contested narratives of cultural and national identity in Australian’s visual histories.

The webinar will commence with a Welcome to Country and a short virtual introduction of the exhibition, followed by presentations from our panellists. This will be followed by a Q&A opportunity.

https://youtu.be/hGsTchsq-Ww

● The racist targeting of the current bill : Sitting in senate now, if passed, Cashless Card Transition bill 2019, will expand the roll outs even further and add 23,000 more people onto Indue cards. They will join the approximately 12,000 people already on cards now. Repeating the same pattern as early roll outs, the government are again targeting aboriginal communities with 86% of the target group in the bill being first nations people.

No Cashless Welfare Debit Card Australia ⚠️ Image #1 Please stop asking about class actions! “ Forced trial participants have been REMOVED from the protection of the law!

Indue gets a free ride exempt from consumer laws until a YEAR after the trials end or becomes permanent policy. This means there can be no class action on consumer rights or personal injury grounds and as gov has said ‘ yes they are’ to the accusations of ‘ not they are not’ on Human Rights grounds..there is no scope for action there either.

We HAVE approached multiple legal groups and the best advice from a sympathetic QC was to push for legislative change – they stated that this policy can ONLY be changed from within Parliament and only the ALP and Greens can all for a HC challenge to the legislation – that is and unless people have a spare 500K just to get the paperwork rolling and are prepared to stump over a million after that for a private HC suit which won’t make it passed the desk in any case as this policy is LEGAL. It is law.

“On 18 June 2020 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) granted an exemption under section 56GD of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) to Indue Ltd in relation to the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) product, delaying all of its CDR obligations until the earlier of 1 July 2023 or 12 months from the date the CDC is no longer a trial and is implemented as a permanent policy arrangement.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/james-cook-250-anniversary-indigenous-place-names-timeline/12251968

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/james-cook-250-anniversary-indigenous-place-names-timeline/12251968

There are no indigenous Victorian full-blood aborigines. They died out in the late 1950s. Any aborigines here since then are descendants of those who were transferred here during the second world war, and to a lesser extent those who migrated in from South Australia.

Any aboriginal place names you happen to see in Victoria are pure propaganda for the tourists and for political power-grabbing.

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/james-cook-250-anniversary-indigenous-place-names-timeline/12251968

There are no indigenous Victorian full-blood aborigines. They died out in the late 1950s. Any aborigines here since then are descendants of those who were transferred here during the second world war, and to a lesser extent those who migrated in from South Australia.

Any aboriginal place names you happen to see in Victoria are pure propaganda for the tourists and for political power-grabbing.

Fuck me you’re an idiot.

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/james-cook-250-anniversary-indigenous-place-names-timeline/12251968

There are no indigenous Victorian full-blood aborigines. They died out in the late 1950s. Any aborigines here since then are descendants of those who were transferred here during the second world war, and to a lesser extent those who migrated in from South Australia.

Any aboriginal place names you happen to see in Victoria are pure propaganda for the tourists and for political power-grabbing.

Fuck me you’re an idiot.

Sometimes I wonder.

Toorak was named after Toorak House, an Italianate residence built by James Jackson, a merchant, in 1849. The name of the house may have originated from Woiwurrung language, with words of similar pronunciation meaning black crow or reedy swamp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toorak,_Victoria#Toponymy

mollwollfumble said:

sarahs mum said:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/james-cook-250-anniversary-indigenous-place-names-timeline/12251968

There are no indigenous Victorian full-blood aborigines. They died out in the late 1950s. Any aborigines here since then are descendants of those who were transferred here during the second world war, and to a lesser extent those who migrated in from South Australia.

Any aboriginal place names you happen to see in Victoria are pure propaganda for the tourists and for political power-grabbing.

It might not be a good idea to say such things to the Lovett family around here. Johnny is perhaps the best known.

https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/johnny-lovett

The local people here were put into reservations/missions. Then people from Western Victoria were shipped off to Gippsland and Gippsland people were brought to the Western part. Work out for yourself what that would do to your sense of self.

https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/lovett-brothers

buffy said:

https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/lovett-brothers

Thanks.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/lovett-brothers

Thanks.

Johnny is still living in the district. He was here in Penshurst for a short time recently but went back into Hamilton. I met Claude (not in those listed in the link). I presume Claude was a cousin or something. He looked like a Lovett. When I was young and had just taken over the practice, Claude came in one day for a glasses adjustment or something. I don’t think it was a consultation. I was making conversation with him and at the time we were living at Hawkesdale where power blackouts were common due to salt buildup on the lines further South near Warrnambool on the coast. I mentioned to Claude that we had a blackout last night. I asked if they had one in Hamilton too – we always asked around to see how far they extended, there was no internet to look at in those days. Very gently Claude said “No, we blacks stayed in last night” and quietly waited for my reaction. Whenever I saw him in the street after that there was a wry smile between us. I must have passed the test though, because I saw quite a few of the local kids over the years and spent more consultation time than Medicare would care to know about discussing the things out at our bush block with one of the Aunties.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

https://www.aboriginalvictoria.vic.gov.au/lovett-brothers

Thanks.

Johnny is still living in the district. He was here in Penshurst for a short time recently but went back into Hamilton. I met Claude (not in those listed in the link). I presume Claude was a cousin or something. He looked like a Lovett. When I was young and had just taken over the practice, Claude came in one day for a glasses adjustment or something. I don’t think it was a consultation. I was making conversation with him and at the time we were living at Hawkesdale where power blackouts were common due to salt buildup on the lines further South near Warrnambool on the coast. I mentioned to Claude that we had a blackout last night. I asked if they had one in Hamilton too – we always asked around to see how far they extended, there was no internet to look at in those days. Very gently Claude said “No, we blacks stayed in last night” and quietly waited for my reaction. Whenever I saw him in the street after that there was a wry smile between us. I must have passed the test though, because I saw quite a few of the local kids over the years and spent more consultation time than Medicare would care to know about discussing the things out at our bush block with one of the Aunties.

“No one tells a good blackfella jooke like a good blackfella”. Was what one Ngiyampaa fellow told me.

One of these days I would dearly like to see a documentary retracing Flinders circumnavigation of Australia. Comparing what Flinders saw on his journey and wrote in his journal with the same landscape as it appears today.

mollwollfumble said:

One of these days I would dearly like to see a documentary retracing Flinders circumnavigation of Australia. Comparing what Flinders saw on his journey and wrote in his journal with the same landscape as it appears today.

There was a good one done a few years ago called In Flinders Wake . It was done by a SA fisherman along a stretch of that coast which he knew well, he didn’t go the anywhere near the whole way around. Was still quite well done, for an amateur. Early 2000s I think.

Health Ombudsman report finds Indigenous boy turned away from Bamaga Hospital six times
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-25/bamaga-hospital-report-on-charlie-izaak-wilfred-gowa/12592654

The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today’s Blackman Bay. More than a century later, in 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay, and the following year Tobias Furneaux became the first Englishman to land in Tasmania when he arrived at Adventure Bay, which he named after his ship HMS Adventure. Captain James Cook also landed at Adventure Bay in 1777. Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed through Bass Strait in 1798–99, determining for the first time that Tasmania was an island.

Sealers and whalers based themselves on Tasmania’s islands from 1798
——

So in 1803 when Bowen and Collins moved in a colony the aborigines went from friendly to miffed. It is suggested that at first they thought they were just going to be around for a while and pick up food and water and leave. But then they didn’t.

sarahs mum said:

The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today’s Blackman Bay. More than a century later, in 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay, and the following year Tobias Furneaux became the first Englishman to land in Tasmania when he arrived at Adventure Bay, which he named after his ship HMS Adventure. Captain James Cook also landed at Adventure Bay in 1777. Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed through Bass Strait in 1798–99, determining for the first time that Tasmania was an island.

Sealers and whalers based themselves on Tasmania’s islands from 1798
——

So in 1803 when Bowen and Collins moved in a colony the aborigines went from friendly to miffed. It is suggested that at first they thought they were just going to be around for a while and pick up food and water and leave. But then they didn’t.

Whaling stations were foul. Looked bad, smelt bad.

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today’s Blackman Bay. More than a century later, in 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay, and the following year Tobias Furneaux became the first Englishman to land in Tasmania when he arrived at Adventure Bay, which he named after his ship HMS Adventure. Captain James Cook also landed at Adventure Bay in 1777. Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed through Bass Strait in 1798–99, determining for the first time that Tasmania was an island.

Sealers and whalers based themselves on Tasmania’s islands from 1798
——

So in 1803 when Bowen and Collins moved in a colony the aborigines went from friendly to miffed. It is suggested that at first they thought they were just going to be around for a while and pick up food and water and leave. But then they didn’t.

Whaling stations were foul. Looked bad, smelt bad.

The whales weren’t thrilled by them either.

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today’s Blackman Bay. More than a century later, in 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay, and the following year Tobias Furneaux became the first Englishman to land in Tasmania when he arrived at Adventure Bay, which he named after his ship HMS Adventure. Captain James Cook also landed at Adventure Bay in 1777. Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed through Bass Strait in 1798–99, determining for the first time that Tasmania was an island.

Sealers and whalers based themselves on Tasmania’s islands from 1798
——

So in 1803 when Bowen and Collins moved in a colony the aborigines went from friendly to miffed. It is suggested that at first they thought they were just going to be around for a while and pick up food and water and leave. But then they didn’t.

Whaling stations were foul. Looked bad, smelt bad.

The whalers and sealers were pretty dreadful people too. Kidnapping and enslaving Aboriginal women seems to have been common.

dv said:

sarahs mum said:

The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on 24 November 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who landed at today’s Blackman Bay. More than a century later, in 1772, a French expedition led by Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne landed at (nearby but different) Blackmans Bay, and the following year Tobias Furneaux became the first Englishman to land in Tasmania when he arrived at Adventure Bay, which he named after his ship HMS Adventure. Captain James Cook also landed at Adventure Bay in 1777. Matthew Flinders and George Bass sailed through Bass Strait in 1798–99, determining for the first time that Tasmania was an island.

Sealers and whalers based themselves on Tasmania’s islands from 1798
——

So in 1803 when Bowen and Collins moved in a colony the aborigines went from friendly to miffed. It is suggested that at first they thought they were just going to be around for a while and pick up food and water and leave. But then they didn’t.

Whaling stations were foul. Looked bad, smelt bad.

It is said that most of the people who claim lineage to Tasmanian aborigines were related to the women that were stolen by the whalers.

Julie Gough says she has found 174 records of children removed and raised in white families. Perhaps there is a much bigger population carrying some Tasmania aboriginal blood than we believe.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

Whaling stations were foul. Looked bad, smelt bad.

It is said that most of the people who claim lineage to Tasmanian aborigines were related to the women that were stolen by the whalers.

Julie Gough says she has found 174 records of children removed and raised in white families. Perhaps there is a much bigger population carrying some Tasmania aboriginal blood than we believe.

> Whaling stations were foul. Looked bad, smelt bad.

Apparently, so did all whites, by aboriginal standards. They preferred the smell of rancid fat.

> It is said that most of the people who claim lineage to Tasmanian aborigines were related to the women that were stolen by the whalers.

Change “stolen by” to “sold to” and I’ll agree with you. In pre-white Tasmanian aboriginal society, sealing was always denigrated as “womens work”. I suspect that the same is true of all work that involved diving. Tasmanian aboriginal males were useless as whalers and sealers.

> Perhaps there is a much bigger population carrying some Tasmania aboriginal blood than we believe.

I suspect not. Those who became wives have been tracked.