Another Sterling Example of RQ’s Commitment to Reconciliation
Racing Queensland publicises Kiarn Holland as a member of its Reconciliation Action Committee. She’s not. These Kiarn works at Sky.
Position Vacant: Gap Closer – Only Pale Skinned People Named Archer Need Apply
Racing Queensland is committed to championing reconciliation by demonstrating cultural diversity and inclusivity, and by being authentic in its aspirations to lead the racing industry to close the gap. That’s why it last week announced that it was naming a new $440 000 slot race in Central Queensland after a non-racing, non punting family of […]
Are the Thoroughbred Authorities in Queensland Covering Up a COVID Outbreak Too?
We have this afternoon received information that the 2 swab attendants and the veterinary surgeon that worked at the Sunshine Coast race meeting on Monday 27 the December were in close contact with a COVID-19 positive case in the course of performing their duties at the meeting. It is our understanding that the swab attendants […]
The Archer is Named After Slave Traders – Part 2 – Meet Them
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 […]
The Archer is Named After Slave Traders – Part 3 – They Even Wanted the Burial Blankets Back
A Letter From Uncle Milty Explaining Why the Archer Should Be Renamed the Nurrim
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 […]
The Blood Stained Hands of the Archers – Does QLD Really Want a Major Race Named After Accomplices to Murder?
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 […]
How Can Ben Currie Be a Pin-Up Boy For Queensland Racing if They Won’t Give Him a License?
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 the Archer? – I Reckon I Can Guess
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 […]
CEO Brendan Parnell Explains Racing QLD’s Deep Commitment to Reconciliation
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 […]