SydneyTankStream

Friends of the Tank Stream are the environmental and conservation advocate for Sydney's historic Tank Stream 📩[email protected]

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Sydney #TankStream is an environmental relic of the early Pleistocene period. It was formed several million years ago, when strange prehistoric creatures (including giant koalas and carnivorous kangaroos) roamed its banks

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Redirect storm water overflow to Bondi outfall, uncover #TankStream from BridgeSt to #CircularQuay, pump sea water to HunterSt and unleash into the waterway 💦 An aesthetic redefinition of our urban cityscape & symbolic recreation of Sydney’s primordial beating heart ❤️ 💧

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

...yet the Cadigal were often also subjected to indiscriminate collective punishment at the hand of the law. The crime of a single Cadigal person sometimes led to slaughter of an entire clan https://t.co/N1xleeonsG

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The #TankStream Cadigal were nominally afforded equal protection under British law. Settlers that unfairly mistreated or stole from them were often hanged, flogged or punished... 1/2

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The #TankStream Cadigal were nominally afforded equal protection under British law. Settlers that unfairly mistreated or stole from them were often hanged, flogged or punished... 1/2

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Primordial #TankStream, winding thru dense thickets of red-gum, bloodwood & peppermint, happily cascading waterfalls flowing into the Cove💦

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

@Member4Gosford 100% correct sir! My apologies

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Yet via land allotment to new settlers & emancipated convicts, no person more responsible for dispossession of Cadigal land than Gov Philip!

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When speared in leg at Manly Cove in 1790 Gov Philip forbade reprisal against assailants in effort to maintain peaceful relations w/ Cadigal

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Gov Philip initially well regarded by #TankStream Cadigal, missing several front teeth they assumed him an initiated man and respected elder

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Officers arriving in colony received 2ac land grants. Emancipated convicts same. Land privatization forced many Cadigal from their homeland

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...progressively dispossessed of ancestral homeland by expanding settlement, survivors sought refuge in mixed camps at Vaucluse & PointPiper https://t.co/ynpDAg1Ilr

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Cadigal of #TankStream among the least understood of First People. Sadly, up to 90% perished during the smallpox outbreak of 1788-91... 1/2

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Cadigal of #TankStream among the least understood of First People. Sadly, up to 90% perished during the smallpox outbreak of 1788-91... 1/2

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

@SivParker City destroyed Tank Stream then b/c no respect for future. City destroys now b/c no respect for past. Sadly, expediency of moment prevails..

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Council to demolish historic Tank Stream area at Alfred St for luxury apartments! Ombo investigating consultation failure #saveourtankstream

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

@woolloomoolo0 Council OKs demolition of historic Tank Stream area at Alfred St for lux apartments! Ombo investigating consultation fail #saveourtankstream

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

e.g...and the Cadigal, who delighted in having heads & beards shaved, happily exchanged fish with colony barber in payment of his service🐟✂️ https://t.co/riml6KL4eZ

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Cadigal/settler relations characterized by misunderstandings & shameful atrocity, yet occasional moments of comity shouldn’t be forgotten...

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

e.g. during 1789-91 Sydney famine, Cadigal generously shared food with hungry settlers, without which hundreds would surely have perished🍖🍒🐟 https://t.co/riml6KL4eZ

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Cadigal/settler relations characterized by misunderstandings & shameful atrocity, yet occasional moments of comity shouldn’t be forgotten...

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Cadigal/settler relations characterized by misunderstandings & shameful atrocity, yet occasional moments of comity shouldn’t be forgotten...

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

...historic #TankStream areas & sites should therefore be celebrated and conserved, not demolished for profit! @CloverMoore @cityofsydney https://t.co/LjZsR12OJ4

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Sydney history often interpreted as history of Euro colonization! #TankStream is rare common thread linking #Cadigal & settler experience...

[SydneyTankStream @TankStreamOrgAu]

Sydney history often interpreted as history of Euro colonization! #TankStream is rare common thread linking #Cadigal & settler experience...