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#JaredWesley: "In this sense, the #West’s greatest challenge may not be economic or cultural decline, but the fact that some people were conditioned to believe in both limitless #opportunity and #superiority. The #mythology of the West promised a permanent #frontier. But frontiers, by definition, do not last forever. Like other regions, the reality of the modern West is now one of boundaries—economic, cultural, and political."

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Decoding Politics · Western Alienation 2.0By Jared Wesley

Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

“This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
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theguardian.com/australia-news

Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
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c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
#TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

The Guardian · The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier warsBy Nick Evershed