Monaroo Elder News Today

The subjugation of the world’s First Nations people was enshrined in the Doctrine of Discovery, a series of papal decrees, made by Pope Alexander VI in 1493, where any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be ‘discovered,’ claimed, and exploited by Christian rulers. By BJ Cruse.

Stephen Holmes used to love stories about Ben Boyd as a kid. That is, until he found out how his Thaua ancestors were treated by the Scottish entrepreneur during his brief years on the NSW South Coast in the 1840s. “I admired Boyd when I was a kid, until I got my face in the books and started reading histories,” the Thaua man told NITV’s The Point program. “When I read (painter and diarist) Oswald Walters Brierly from England. I read his journals and that’s when I saw it all, it just ...