Bonyi Bush Books

⚠️ STRONG DISCLAIMER – READ THIS FIRSTMob, before you listen to the recreation of Eliza Fraser speaking in her real Scottish English accent from the 1800s…This is going to be absolutely fucking freaky for many of us. The language and attitude you will hear is the same colonial venom that has damaged our people’s reputation around the world for nearly two centuries. This woman single-handedly helpe...

Big News from Wurundjeri Country Deadly mob in Melbourne (the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people) been using next-level tech — LiDAR from the sky — to look after old people’s places on Country. So what’s LiDAR? It’s like a laser scanner from planes or drones. It shoots light down, maps the ground in 3D, and shows the tiniest shapes in the dirt, even under trees. That means archaeologists and Traditiona...

Debunking the Myth: Dingoes Did NOT Arrive from Asia 4,000 Years Ago—A Kabi Perspective This paper challenges the prevailing hypothesis that Australian dingoes ( Canis lupus dingo) arrived in Australia approximately 4,000 years ago via human introduction from Asia. We argue that this narrative, deeply rooted in colonial-era assumptions, marginalizes Indigenous ecological knowledge and overlooks si...

Alright, here’s your simulated, entertainment-only phone call with the legendary Steve Irwin — as if he were still with us, full of that infectious energy and love for wildlife. 📞 Ringing… click! 📞 Steve Irwin: “Crikey! G’day mate! Steve Irwin here — how ya goin’?” You: “Steve! Wow, I can’t believe I’m talking to you. How’s life in the wild?” Steve Irwin: “Life’s beaut , mate! I’ve just been out...

What does the legacy of Steve Irwin and Australia Zoo look like through the eyes of First Nations Australians? In this video, we explore the criticisms surrounding the Irwin family’s approach to wildlife, animal welfare, and media image, as outlined in recent discussions and documents. From concerns about animal handling and commercialisation to questions of cultural respect, we examine how these...

#stopborumbahydro

Chapter 1

This piece of shit Bligh family dawgs

A 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 orthod...

While 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 vita...

Part 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 com...

For 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.

The 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...

Deadly freestyle

My interview with Alex Easton went pretty good

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The greatest actor who ever lived

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...

Putrid inbred dawgs

This 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 d...

Naugty boy Mike

When 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 subjec...

REDISCOVERED 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.

Andrew 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

Andrew 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