
Andrew Garner
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Andrew Garner
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Average Aussie. Shift Worker.. Dad…









Did you know that TOLL Group the logistics company is now freighting refugees to Australia on behalf of the government? The $1’9 Billion contract will see up to 20,000 refugees per year on humanitarian visas from places like Syria, be transported to Australia at no cost to them with free healthcare and housing provided! No wonder Australia is experiencing a housing crisis!! Multiple reports of refugees arriving at airports across the country wearing Toll branded clothing.

Fascinating Chapter in the Life of Bennelong In 1788, Bennelong was a 24 year old Aboriginal man who lived on the southern side of Sydney Harbour when the First Fleet sailed in. Bennelong befriended Governor Phillip and was a frequent and much loved guest at officer meals. Phillip built Bennelong a hut where the Sydney Opera House sits today. When Bennelong had learnt enough English, he begged the British to use their guns to wipe out his enemies on the northern shore of the harbour. One officer wrote of Bennelong, 'love and war seemed his favourite pursuits.' In 1792, Governor Phillip returned to England ... and he took Bennelong with him. Bennelong would spend a year in England where he visited famous sites and was treated as a celebrity. While in England, Bennelong learned English ways. He was obviously impressed. In September 1795, Bennelong arrived back in Sydney with Captain John Hunter who was NSW's incoming governor of NSW. David Collins was the top legal guy in the early colony and he describes Bennelong's return: "About this settlement their attention had been for some time engrossed by Bennelong, who arrived with the governor. On his first appearance, he conducted himself with a polished familiarity toward his sisters and other relations; but to his acquaintances Bennelong was distant, and quite the man of consequence. Bennelong declared, in a tone and with an air that seemed to expect compliance, that he should no longer suffer them to fight and cut each other's throats, as they had done; that he should introduce peace among them, and make them love each other. He expressed his wish that when they visited him at Government-house they would contrive to be somewhat more cleanly in their persons, and less coarse in their manners; and he seemed absolutely offended at some little indelicacies which he observed in his sister Carrangarang, who came in such haste from Botany Bay, with a little nephew on her back, to visit him, that she left all her clothing behind her. Bennelong had certainly not been an inattentive observer of the manners of the people among whom he had lived; he conducted himself with the greatest propriety at table, particularly in the observance of those attentions which are chiefly requisite in the presence of women. His dress appeared to be an object of no small concern with him; and every one who knew him before he left the country, and who saw him now, pronounced without hesitation that Bennelong had not any desire to renounce the habits and comforts of the civilized life which he appeared so readily and so successfully to adopt. His inquiries were directed, immediately on his arrival, after his wife Goroobarrooboollo; and her he found with Caruey (JR - while Bennelong was away, his wife had hooked up with a younger Aboriginal man named Caruey). On producing a very fashionable rose-coloured petticoat and jacket made of a coarse stuff, accompanied with a gypsy bonnet of the same colour, she deserted her lover, and followed her former husband. In a few days however, to the surprise of every one, we saw the lady walking unencumbered with clothing of any kind, and Bennelong was missing. Caruey was sought for, and we heard that he had been severely beaten by Bennelong at Rose Bay, who retained so much of our customs, that he made use of his fists instead of the weapons of his country, to the great annoyance of Caruey, who would have preferred meeting his rival fairly in the field armed with the spear and the club. Caruey being much the younger man, the lady, every inch a woman, followed her inclination, and Bennelong was compelled to yield her without any further opposition. He seemed to have been satisfied with the beating he had given Caruey, and hinted, that resting for the present without a wife, he should look about him, and at some future period make a better choice." There's no evidence confirming Bennelong converted to Christianity ... but his hope to be a peacemaker between warring tribes indicates he had at least been introduced to the faith. Bennelong's son was such an enthusiastic convert he became an evangelist to the Aboriginals. Read more here - #chapter30" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gutenberg.org/files/12565/12…























