'He called Aboriginals vermin': Push to remove Ben Boyd's name gains momentum
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 popped out. Stephen Homes is a Thaua man and founder of Thaua Country Aboriginal Corporation.
Source: sbs.com.au