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Indigenous Archive Burraga petitions the King , 20 September 1933, Cinesound , duration: 0.41 minutes. Colored. --------------------- Seeking parliamentary representation On Wednesday, 20 September 1933, the Australian Aboriginal man Burraga, chief of the Thirroul [Dharawal] tribe, gave a filmed interview for Cinesound from Salt Pan Creek, Peakhurst, on the banks of a tributary of the Georges River, wherein he petitioned King George V for Indigenous (Blacks') representation in the Federal Parliament and better, more humane conditions for them in general (Anderson 1933). Burraga's speech before the newsreel camera was a landmark in Indigenous action to redress the disastrous impact of the unlawful British invasion of Australia and dispossession of its people which took place on 26 January 1788, following on the actions of Lt. James Cook in 1770. Nothing less than cultural genocide was instigated by the British monarchy in pursuit of colonial expansion and empir...

" ...the best breakup anthem ever... " @danielchance7021 (2020) US single, 2004. Contents Breakup blues Recording & performance Rebecca Moore Epilogue Reference -------------------- 1. Breakup blues One of the most intimate and heartfelt songs by the late American singer / songwriter / guitarist Jeff Buckley (1966-1997) is the heartbreak anthem Forget Her . Likely written around the time of its earliest known performance at the Bearsville Theatre, Woodstock, New York, on 20 September 1993, it speaks of a personal breakup between Buckley and his girlfriend of the previous three years. Both lyrically and musically it is full of personal angst and Buckley's inability to "forget her." The lyrics - written in the heat of the breakup - are brutal and seek to blame and shame the other. [NB: the following lyrics are taken from the US single release of 2004 and derive from the1993-4 Grace sessions; words in brackets thus [....] are fro...

| Indigenous Archive | Timbéré , engraving, Paris, 1822. Contents French connection Facebook post Origin & meaning Family history Chronology References -------------------- Abstract : One of the earliest Illawarra (Five Islands - an area on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, located approximately 50 miles south of Sydney) and Shoalhaven Indigenous individuals to be identified in the non-Indigenous historical record during Australia's early colonial period was a man identified by a French artist as  Timbéré . This naming took place during November 1819 in association with the visit to Sydney of a French exploring expedition. The man was subsequently listed in family history records as Timbery, born at Charcoal Creek, near Wollongong, in 1784 and died at Wollongong in 1840. During the latter part of the 1800s a member of the Timbery family was declared "King of the Five Islands" and given a breast plate, which was later u...