Friday, June 15, 2018

THE MEANING OF TERRA NULLIUS BOOTED HOME TO AUSTRALIA

British cartoonist Phil May defined  the  settling  of  Australian  in  this  circa 1900 drawing for  the Sydney  Bulletin  depicting  the  centenary of the arrival of  the  first  fleet  in Sydney in 1788 . It is  captioned "Poor Pfella Me!"  ... Whomever Australia is for, it  is  not  for the Australian  Aboriginal . John Bull,on a plinth named Australia 1788-1888 is shown  delivering  the  boot to Aborigine derisively  named King Billy ; others in the group  represent  Germany , China , America  and  France.   Prime Minister Malcolm  Turnbull  recently  delivered what was described as a  " kick in the  guts "  when he  rejected  the  Uluru Statement  call  for  an  indigenous  advisory   body .