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Emma Christopher Australia's use of Pacific Islander workers in the late 19th century was part of a much bigger story of British sugar barons and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. South Sea Islander children in Queensland, around 1902-05. Photo: Queensland State Library There are moves afoot to scrub colonial businessman Benjamin Boyd’s name from the map. The owners of historic Boydtown on the NSW south coast are planning to change its name, while Ben Boyd National Park may also be renamed. Residents in North Sydney will take part in a survey to rename Ben Boyd Road, too. The reason: Boyd’s links to “blackbirding” in the 19th century.
There are moves afoot to scrub colonial businessman Benjamin Boyd’s name from the map. The owners of historic Boydtown on the NSW south coast are planning to change its name, while Ben Boyd National Park may also be renamed. Residents in North Sydney will take part in a survey to rename Ben Boyd Road, too. The reason: Boyd’s links to “blackbirding” in the 19th century. Blackbirding was a term given to the trade of kidnapping or tricking Pacific Islanders on board ships so they could be carried away to work in Australia. Boyd instigated this practice in the late 1840s, bringing the first group of Pacific Islanders to work on land in the Australian colonies. Although his scheme ultimately failed, other labour traders would deliver approximately 62,000 islanders to Queensland and NSW between the 1860s and 1900s.
Judith Nevias Diamond NEWPORT NEWS — Judith Nevias Diamond (29 and holding, plus 63) passed away at home surrounded by family Wednesday, March 10, 2021. There was a private burial service due to the pandemic. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Lawrence Diamond. She is survived by two daughters, Sherry Diamond Liebman of Virginia Beach and Marian Diamond (Ari Tapper) of Fairfax Station; four grandchildren, Daniel, Rachel, Ben and Zoe; and cat, Callie. Our mom, Judy, was raised in Phoebus and was a proud Hampton High Crabber. She graduated from the College of William & Mary at the age of 19 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. She worked as a social worker, then in the government and thereafter worked with her husband at their family-owned drugstore, Diamond Pharmacy, for 53 years.
Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain Ellen Cushing I first became aware that I was losing my mind in late December. It was a Friday night, the start of my 40-somethingth pandemic weekend: Hours and hours with no work to distract me, and outside temperatures prohibitive of anything other than staying in. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to fill the time. “What did I used to … do on weekends?” I asked my boyfriend, like a soap-opera amnesiac. He couldn’t really remember either. Since then, I can’t stop noticing all the things I’m forgetting. Sometimes I grasp at a word or a name. Sometimes I walk into the kitchen and find myself bewildered as to why I am there. (At one point during the writing of this article, I absentmindedly cleaned my glasses with nail-polish remover.) Other times, the forgetting feels like someone is taking a chisel to the bedrock of my brain, prying everything loose. I’ve started keeping a list of questions, remnants of a past life that I now need a beat or two to remember, if I can remember at all:
January 21, 2021 at 12:51 PM Shares5 (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Whew! The inauguration of our new president, and yes, I am saying “our” new president, happened without trauma or turmoil. We’ve had a lot of that recently, and whether your candidate won or lost the election, the sense of relief is probably palpable for most of us. Remember a time when law practice was civil, both in practice and in courtesy? Can we, please, do that now? Be civil? Be courteous? Does it really take that much effort? Being a jerk is easy; being courteous and civil is sometimes hard, but it’s the right way to practice. I don’t think most lawyers would disagree. We have all been battered and bruised and now it’s time to work together to solve client problems. (Just a little mediator-speak here.)