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Ridge and Fire: “The Aboriginal Mother” and Colonial Australia

Documenting a horrific slaughter of Indigenous people, Dunlop's poem names murder and appeals to the God of the coloniser for justice.

August 22, 2026

Jen on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony
Welcome to Country is a ceremony as old as the land itself.
Bob Coe on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony
That’s what I understand the history of Welcome To Country to be.
Kelly Conrad on Presumed Guilty at Fourteen: The Case Against 22C
Indigenous people are always the losers in law and order auctions.
Kelly Conrad on Baiame – The Creator God and Sky Father
A very informative post, thank you ?
Kelly Conrad on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony
Thank you for the post Bakchos, you’ve spelled out the history of Welcome To Country well.
Polina on Welcome to Country: Ancestral Protocol to Civic Ceremony
The older foundations are real and recorded across regions: William Thomas’s account of the Kulin tanderrum, Howitt on messengers whose…