Pastoralism’s distributive ruse: Extractivism, financialization, Indigenous labour and a rightful share in Northern Australia

Memory in Place: Locating colonial histories and commemoration

“…He describes a field visit to the region of Timber Creek, in proximity to the Western Australia/Northern Territory border, where he and historian and archaeologist Darrell Lewis searched for a site known as Kanjamala on Ngaliwurru Aboriginal land, where the massacre likely took place. As and a raft of others have demonstrated, in this region, massacres and kidnapping were techniques of pastoral station workers and managers that enabled the continued dispossession of Aboriginal people (Dalley, 2022;Jebb, 2002;. In his chapter, Griffiths attends to the histories preserved on a particular boab tree in the region where pastoralists and Aboriginal people carved their names.…”

“…It was first published in the Western Mail on 18 February 1905 (Christine McLachlan, personal communication; see also Lydon, 2010;. As is extensively detailed in Chris history of the region, Aboriginal people in the East Kimberley were imprisoned, often for very minor crimes, and used as penal labour throughout the early to mid-twentieth century (see also Dalley, 2022). The identity of the photographer remains unknown; however, visual crossreferencing from other historical photographs taken at a similar time has enabled Christine to determine that the photograph was taken less than 100 metres from the museum.…”

History by committee: Representing the ‘facts’ of settler colonialism in a local historical society museum

“…It was first published in the Western Mail on 18 February 1905 (Christine McLachlan, personal communication; see also Lydon, 2010;Owen, 2016). As is extensively detailed in Chris Owen's (2016) history of the region, Aboriginal people in the East Kimberley were imprisoned, often for very minor crimes, and used as penal labour throughout the early to mid-twentieth century (see also Dalley, 2022). The identity of the photographer remains unknown; however, visual crossreferencing from other historical photographs taken at a similar time has enabled Christine to determine that the photograph was taken less than 100 metres from the museum.…”