An Indigenous Party, run by Indigenous people, to tackle Indigenous issues Authorised by Owen Whyman Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia Wilcannia NSW 2836
Woomera Resurgence Camp https://t.co/NamJUZVeG8
TREATY BEFORE SPORTS SECOND WOOMERA CAMP IS COMING UP!! LINK FOR TIX IN BIO!!
A weekend for Mob and Allies who want to become more politically aware, share common ground and build community - taught from lived experience.
Listened to the Independent candidate for the seat of Farrer @michelle4farrer on Radio National.Very impressive advocate for regional issues and brave enough to discuss immigration and country needs.
I wish her well we need people who genuinely care for their community.
Here's a link to a newsletter emailed out to our 3700 or so members, & other interested parties, in Oct last year which we didn't also put through social media then. There are also a couple of updates to the list of Indigenous run schools in the country.
https://t.co/C6uP2jZHrJ
I am from Queensland, where two of my tribes were massacred. Some women and children were kept alive, only for the women to later die from syphilis after being trafficked for sex by white invaders.
My great-grandparents were forced to work on cattle stations for 35 years without pay. When they were no longer useful, they were removed under government control, and women, children and men were made to walk hundreds of kilometres — from Taroom to Woorabinda, Cherbourg, and Palm Island — as part of the forced removals. The sign you are looking at is from:
Cullin‑la‑Ringo (Central Queensland, near Emerald)
19 settlers were were indeed killed by a “local Aboriginal tribe” in October 1861. As usual it is told solely by the invaders perspective and implies there was an unprovoked attack on a resting camp and frames Aboriginal people as the aggressors
That framing is historically dishonest.
Horatio Wills and others were involved in systematic violence against Aboriginal people. This included the poisoning of Aboriginal people with arsenic-laced flour. Entire camps were wiped out — men, women, children
This was not isolated behaviour; it was common frontier practice.
The 1861 attack was retaliation. The killing of Wills’ party was retaliatory violence. Aboriginal people were defending their land and responding to extermination. Under international law today, this would be recognised as resistance to invasion.
The sign never mentions why the attack happened.
After the deaths of the 19 settlers:
• Hundreds of Aboriginal people were hunted down and massacred
• Mounted Native Police and settlers carried out reprisals over months
• Women and children were killed
• Bodies were left uncounted and unnamed
There are no roadside signs marking those massacres.
The wording:
• ✔ Names settlers
• ✖ Erases Aboriginal deaths
• ✖ Omits poisoning, land theft, and prior massacres
• ✖ Uses “tribe” to dehumanise
• ✖ Presents colonisers as innocent victims
This is colonial propaganda, not a balanced history.
Cullin-la-Ringo is often called: “the largest single loss of settler life”
But what it really represents is: how settler deaths were memorialised, while Aboriginal genocide was normalised and silenced. There are hundreds of documented Aboriginal massacre sites across Australia. Very few are marked. Many are still denied.
Cullin-la-Ringo is remembered only because settlers died.