DAVIDS_AUSTRALIA
NUDGEE SUNRISE
This image was taken at Nudgee Beach in Queensland Australia at sunrise
The word Nudgee comes from the language of the Indigenous Australians who occupied this land for many thousands of years before European "setttlement" (read invasion).
Prior to European occupation (read invasion), this and every part of the land we now call Australia was occupied by what we now call Aboriginal people (See profile for an overview of this history).
As global warming and the insidious senseless ramparts of the capitalist modernist project begins to crumble because it has reached the limitations of a global capacity to enable me to gain at your expense, to eat while you starve, to buy a second ‘investment’ home whilst you live on the streets, to pay a doctor to inject botox into my face whilst you die of malnutrition- and the rising tide (the unfettered market) that was supposed to raise all ships (your standard of living as well as mine) begins to buckle and gasp for air, I wonder what the Indigenous people think of what we have done their land, to their lifestyle, to their future and the environment they cared for and preserved for 40,000+ years before ‘civilised’ people came along and ‘settled’ in this country.
INDIGENOUS HISTORY
The area was called Nar-dha, nar (meaning black ducks) and dha (meaning earth ground), was a significant meeting place for people from various clans from as far away as the Richmond River in the south and the Burnett in the north. It was an important pathway.
At certain times of the year, initiation ceremonies, law making, corroborees (yawahrr) - a way of sharing the news - and exchange of goods took place at Nar-dha.
The waterholes provided animal foods - fish, turtles (binkin), yabbies (yarring) and water fowls/ducks - and plants like bungwall fern for food and bark for shelters. Stones from the waterholes were suitable for making tools such as knives, spearheads and scrapers.
Of course the experiences of Indigenous – European interactions were not homogenous nor were the attitudes each Indigenous group took towards European ‘settlers’ and visa versa. The overall story was not good for Indigenous people, but simplistic accounts of adversarial conflict and a will to wipe out the Indigenous community are simply false. I recommend reading The Australian People (edited by James Jupp). This account gives a reasonably balanced view from a historians perspective. See the link below to order this book.
books.google.com.au/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&pg=PA369&am...
FOOTNOTE.
Apart from cropping and brightness/contrast adjustments, all of my images are presented as they were when the shutter closed, unless otherwise stated.
NUDGEE SUNRISE
This image was taken at Nudgee Beach in Queensland Australia at sunrise
The word Nudgee comes from the language of the Indigenous Australians who occupied this land for many thousands of years before European "setttlement" (read invasion).
Prior to European occupation (read invasion), this and every part of the land we now call Australia was occupied by what we now call Aboriginal people (See profile for an overview of this history).
As global warming and the insidious senseless ramparts of the capitalist modernist project begins to crumble because it has reached the limitations of a global capacity to enable me to gain at your expense, to eat while you starve, to buy a second ‘investment’ home whilst you live on the streets, to pay a doctor to inject botox into my face whilst you die of malnutrition- and the rising tide (the unfettered market) that was supposed to raise all ships (your standard of living as well as mine) begins to buckle and gasp for air, I wonder what the Indigenous people think of what we have done their land, to their lifestyle, to their future and the environment they cared for and preserved for 40,000+ years before ‘civilised’ people came along and ‘settled’ in this country.
INDIGENOUS HISTORY
The area was called Nar-dha, nar (meaning black ducks) and dha (meaning earth ground), was a significant meeting place for people from various clans from as far away as the Richmond River in the south and the Burnett in the north. It was an important pathway.
At certain times of the year, initiation ceremonies, law making, corroborees (yawahrr) - a way of sharing the news - and exchange of goods took place at Nar-dha.
The waterholes provided animal foods - fish, turtles (binkin), yabbies (yarring) and water fowls/ducks - and plants like bungwall fern for food and bark for shelters. Stones from the waterholes were suitable for making tools such as knives, spearheads and scrapers.
Of course the experiences of Indigenous – European interactions were not homogenous nor were the attitudes each Indigenous group took towards European ‘settlers’ and visa versa. The overall story was not good for Indigenous people, but simplistic accounts of adversarial conflict and a will to wipe out the Indigenous community are simply false. I recommend reading The Australian People (edited by James Jupp). This account gives a reasonably balanced view from a historians perspective. See the link below to order this book.
books.google.com.au/books?id=yTKFBXfCI1QC&pg=PA369&am...
FOOTNOTE.
Apart from cropping and brightness/contrast adjustments, all of my images are presented as they were when the shutter closed, unless otherwise stated.