‘The territory of England is too small for its population. She requires a monopoly of the four [4] corners of the globe to enable her to exist. War procures this monopoly, because it gives England the right of destruction at sea’. Napoleon, cited Jonathan Holslag, A Political History of the World, 3000 Years of War and Peace, Pelican, 2018
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‘Phillip was authorised to see to the defence of the colony…Military and police raids against dissenting Aboriginal groups lasted from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
These raids [‘kill 6… bring in the heads’] had commenced by December [14] 1790′. Professor Bruce Kercher, History of Law in Australia, Allen and Unwin, 1995
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‘Dawes whose duty it was to go out with that party [14 December] refused that duty by letter’. Professor G. Arnold Wood, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Vol. X, 1924, Part 1
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‘From 1788 there had been continuous disputation between the civil power represented by the autocratic uniformed naval governors and the military’. John McMahon, Not a Rum Rebellion But a Military Insurrection, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 92, 2006
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1790 – September 7, Manly Beach: A ‘tremendous monster’ stranded on Manly Beach. Aborigines greeted the seasonal return of their totem with ‘rapture’. After an extremely lean winter the whale flagged the promise of coming abundance.See: Manly Location, Location, Location
The stranding however proved a tipping point for ‘further mischief’ that can be linked to the near annihilation of a free people, Australia’s First Nations’ Peoples. See: Arthur’s Algorithm – ‘infuse universal terror’ open – sesame
Governor Arthur Phillip’s career in the Royal Navy had began harpooning whales in the Arctic. Now (1790) armed with a pistol, dirk’ and a bottle or two of fine French reds he was rowed across to Manly where he met up again with the warrior Bennalong.
‘[The governor] uncorked a bottle, and poured out a glass of it, which the other [Bennelong] drank off with his former marks of relish and good humour, giving for a toast, as he had been taught “the King”. Marine Captain Watkin Tench, Sydney’s First Four Years, ed. L.F. Fitzhardinge, Angus and Robertson, 1961
A little way off a group of ‘other’ Aborigines stood watching this strange pantomime.