Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Turaroi Tokoma, the slave without the shirt. My kids great-great grandfather. My wife’s great-grandfather – my children’s ancestor – was a slave, stolen from his island home in the waters between the Solomon Islands and PNG, and taken thousands of miles away to labour for white men without wages and at the threat of whipping […]
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 […]
So if, as the QRIC so publicly state, the former State champion Benjamin Mark Currie is not a fit and proper person to hold either a trainer or strapper’s license in Queensland, why does Racing Queensland continue to prominently display his image on it’s website? Either Ben is totally unfit to participate in the sport […]
I wonder what JT thinks about naming a big race after the family who stole the Rockhampton people’s land, and kept black slaves? I wonder what GI thinks? Or Hodgo? I suspect that they all think the same. Why don’t we name the next race the Invasion Day Stakes? Or perhaps even the Cullin-la-ringo Massacre […]
I wonder what happened to the black boy? I wonder what his name was? I wonder how old he was? I wonder if he had sisters and brothers? I wonder why the Archer’s stole him as a slave? I wonder why they didn’t pay him? I wonder why they didn’t take a white boy? I […]
Dear Bentleys I note with huge disappointment that your firm has become a naming sponsor of a new horse race at Rockhampton named the Archer. I am the author of a popular racing website, and have become aware that the family that the race is named after were involved in the dispossession of indigenous Australians […]
Uncle Milty was up in Port Douglas yesterday. He parked his bike with the I Love Straddie sticker on Macrossan Street, outside the entrance to the Nautilus restaurant. People said he was here to meet with Uncle Errol from Edge Hill about the Captain Cook statue takedown campaign, but it’s not true. The great man […]
