@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 11 months agoCaptain Cook statue toppled in St Kilda on eve of 26 Januarywww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down13
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoCook really just steered the boat for Joey (the rockstar biologist) banks. It was Banks that went back to Britain raving about “Terra nullius” (while knowing that to be false) and pushing colonisation. No one was interested in what Cook had to say.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•11 months agoDa fuq terra nullius didn’t come about until much later when bourke cracked the shits at the formation of Melbourne beyond his control
Cook really just steered the boat for Joey (the rockstar biologist) banks.
It was Banks that went back to Britain raving about “Terra nullius” (while knowing that to be false) and pushing colonisation. No one was interested in what Cook had to say.
Oops - replied to the wrong comment.
Da fuq terra nullius didn’t come about until much later when bourke cracked the shits at the formation of Melbourne beyond his control