Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well it appears we made an innocent mistake yesterday when we (wrongly) described Brisbane’s second biggest bookie of the 2000’s Uncle Lindsay Gallagher – who tells us is a distant relation of Jill, the Order of Australia winner – as a member of the Taribelang Bunda people from Bundaberg. Uncle Lindsay has written in to […]
Uncle Lindsay at top, and his cousin Aunty Nhaya Nicky of the Taribelang people of Bundaberg below https://www.indigenous.gov.au/node/25/stories?page=0%2C1 I have written a great deal recently about Uncle Milty of the Minjerribah people. In these stories I have often referenced the elder wisdom imparted to Uncle Milty by his elder from the north Uncle Errol, white […]
With only a day to go until the end of the season, it appears certain that for the first time in memory the super-sire of the 21st century Bettors Delight will not make it into the top 20 US two-year-old sires by average earnings list. Bettors juvenile progeny this year have earned just $7 669 […]
8000 black slaves just like my wife and children’s ancestor Tokoma disappeared in Queensland in just 10 years. They simply vanished, according to the historical records written by the white men who stole them. The truth is that they died of disease, or dropped dead from over-work, or in many cases were simply slaughtered. Their […]
On Boxing Day I listened to the President of the Rocky Amateurs Bill Reid on radio talking about the new slot race The Archer. Mr Reid is obviously aware of the issues that I have raised about the racist origins of the name of the new race, for one of the first things he said […]
January 1856 After local Aboriginal people had killed five station-hands at Mount Larcombe on Boxing Day 1855, several punitive missions were conducted by armed settlers. Lieutenant John Murray led these reprisals. A group of around 250 Aboriginal people residing in the area were tracked down and surrounded at a creek near the modern day township of […]
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/6991429 Editor’s note – We thank Uncle Errol and Uncle Milty for sending these historical clippings from the State and National Libraries to us. Those who do not know the dark, half-hidden history of Australia are they who celebrate things that should be mourned. Of course those who do it and deny it aren’t much […]
Uncle Milty at RSL on Armistice Day, pleading his case to the President for support for his campaign for the award of service medals denied to his Great Grand-Uncle Henry Doyle, on the basis of his race. It seems a sadly common theme in the services this dreaded racism, both in the military and in […]
Uncle Milty’s Facebook page showing a picture of his much loved dogs Tidda and Boorie (top), and displaying one of his newer dot paintings created during his summer sojourn back home on the Island What a week it has been for emerging Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) indigenous leader and activist Uncle Milty Doyle First he spends […]
