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Lightning strikes into Victorian territory by Sydney bar king Justin Hemmes and the staggering $33 million sale of the Boundary Hotel in East Bentleigh have drawn new assets to market.
Australia’s Colonial Names Are Being Replaced by Aboriginal Ones The Economist, April 24, 2021 You cannot go far in Australia without stumbling on a spot named after an act of colonial violence. The continent is dotted with Massacre Bays, Deadman’s Creeks and Murdering Gullies. Suicide Bay, in Tasmania, commemorates an especially grizzly slaughter. In 1828, a party of white shepherd-convicts cornered an indigenous clan on a clifftop and murdered 30 men as punishment for slaughtering the settlers’ sheep. They threw the bodies into the water. Aboriginals have long said that the bay’s na...
Print text only Cancel The Launceston City Council has thrown its support behind a growing push to rename the Batman Bridge in Tasmania's north as Aboriginal leaders call for "white-washed history" to be undone. Key points: The Launceston City Council will lobby the state government to change the name of Batman Bridge The bridge is named after John Batman, who killed at least a dozen Aboriginal Tasmanians in the 1800s It comes as other places in the state receive dual names or are completely renamed The bridge crossing kanamaluka/River Tamar, between the West Tamar and George Town municipalit...
The Launceston City Council has voted to appeal to the Tasmanian Government to change the name of the Batman Bridge. Chairman of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council and trawlwoolway man Michael Mansell told NITV he was happy with the Launceston City Council’s decision. “Good on them,” he said. “Well done Launceston City Council, because a local government that is as big as the Hobart City Council, or the Launceston City Council, any decision they make in this context would be very difficult for whoever forms government in May to ignore. “You can almost feel that the change is...
Patrick Clarke , January 13th, 2021 08:38 Heavy duo Divide And Dissolve aim to destroy white supremacy through overwhelmingly intense music. They speak to Patrick Clarke about ideology, Indigineity, and inevitable backlash Photos by Billy Eyers On the ‘About’ section of their website, Divide And Dissolve state their aims: “To secure Black futures, liberation, and freedom; demand Indigenous Sovereignty; uplift people of color’s experiences; and destroy white supremacy.” They are an instrumental band, yet through their music’s overwhelming intensity they convey an enormous amount. ...