Peter Wynn
Sep 10, 2021

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When the right-wing talks about cancel culture, it forgets something, or ignores it. The idiot who embarrassed Australia for 726 days, that Tony Something or other, talked about cancelling Captain Cook, but what he ignored is, whether or not Captain Cook admired the First Nations Peoples, is beside the point. Captain Cook took possession of the East Coast of what is now Australia without a treaty with the First Nations Peoples, and that is what rankles many fair-minded people! And let us never forget that the policy that the Australian Governments and the British Governments had was of Terra Nullius, meaning no claim to the land. They forcibly assimilated the First Nations peoples into the dominant British culture. So that was about cancelling the First Nations Cultures.

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

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