Penniedarling

While happily sewing away in my sewing room yesterday, I learned from ABC Digital Radio and 'Speaking Out', of something that made me absolutely sick!  It's played on my mind since, so this morning I've been searching away on Google and there is a lot out there about this disgraceful incident, am I the only one who didn't know I wonder! 

Below is an article from ABC's PM with Mark Colvin, it was on air 4 years ago but listening to 'Speaking Out' yesterday was the first time I'd ever heard of this shameful event.

Did you know that Australian Aboriginals, some whom willingly enlisted and were sent to South Africa to work as Trackers during the Boer War... were not allowed back to their homeland, home of their ancestors, home of their families and the only life they had ever known...  because of that bloody 'White Australia' Policy that went on for at least 50 years! 

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2914322.htm

http://treatyrepublic.net/content/50-aboriginal-trackers-left-behind-after-boer-war

https://www.facebook.com/AustralianAboriginalTrackers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy


Methinks I need to head back to the Sewing Room with some calming music!

Labels: Aboriginal, Rant