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Me, a letterbox, and murder

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Prologue 6 pm, Monday, 13 January 2025. I step out of the kitchen after cleaning up from dinner - spaghetti bolonaise and organic penne - and walk into the front room. As I look out the window I see two ambulances parked outside, and a white four wheel drive next to them.  "WTF!" I think to myself.  It has been hot for the last couple of days - 30-32°C - and the house is all closed up, so I do not hear any sirens or commotion from the back room. They could have been there for half a hour for all I know. I quickly pick up my t-shirt and walk out the front door. Looking down I see a young boy, about 12, laying on the edge of the footpath, near the letterbox. He is wearing a bike helmet and has a large, dark green whistle in his mouth given him by one of the ambulance officers, or ambos as we call them. His left leg is wrapped on three sides up to his thigh in a white cardboard casket, with bandages on the top. Next to him are two female ambos, and a male ambo standing behind....

Shoalhaven yams - an Indigenous harvest?

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Shoalhaven: | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | Contents Introduction Evidence? Dreaming stories Conclusions Sovereign Union 2022 References ------------------- 1. Introduction In recent years the evidence for yam harvesting as a traditional practice by Indigenous Australians has come to the fore, especially in northern Australia where climactic conditions are most suitable for planting and harvesting, though historically they extended south as far as Victoria. It has also been stated that the First Nations people of the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, fostered crops of yams over the millenia as a staple of their diet. When the writer was...

Mary Reibey and Mr. Berry

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Mary Reibey (c.1840s) and Alexander Berry (c.1850s). Contents Introduction Commercial ties To England 1820-1 Shoalhaven land 1828+ Southward 1834 Two peas in a pod References -------------------- Abstract : Mary Reibey is an enigma of Australian history. Labelled the convict who became Australia's richest businesswoman, much has been written about her. She graces the Australian $20 bill, yet of the woman herself little is known; we know what she did, but not what she thought. There is no significant cache of personal letters or diaries; no detailed third-person descriptions. She was not involved in public scandal, and did not participate in public political life, though her wealth gave her obvious power in the penal colony. She is therefore what is known as a hard nut to crack for historians - easy to write about, but not to necessarily understand. The following article therefore takes a deep dive into a little known aspect of her life - her ownership...

Spellers - extraordinary non-speaking autistic savants

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| Cosmic Consciousness | Dreams | Karma & Nirvana 1895-6 | Life of St Issa - Jesus Christ | Manipulating consciousness | Organ transplants | Reincarnation & Karma | Spellers | Taylor Swift's Karma | Theory of Everything | Time & the specious present | Contents Introduction Skills The Hill Explanation How do they do it? Videos & podcasts The problem of science Update 10/1/25 - A new paradigm Under the bus Addenda References ------------------ Abstract : Through the work of Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell and documentary film maker Ky Dickens, the world has been forever changed since September 2024 when the extraordinary capabilities of non-speaking autistic savants - referred to as Spellers - was revealed though The Telepathy Tapes podcast series. Consideration of the implications of their work, its foundation arising out of access to expanded consciousness, and the way forward, thus become...