#JuukanGorgeDestructionExtractivism and the #AustralianSettlerColonialImagination by #ArenaEditor #DanTout #ArenaQuarterly no. 4, #Dec2020 | #ThisWGARnews of #Tues15thDec2020 ft #JuukanGorge #JuukanGorgeDestruction #SettlerColonial

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Lecturer in history and sociology @FedUniAustralia and an Arena Publications Editor


Extract of article in the Public Domain:
"In the days leading up to National Sorry Day and the opening of National Reconciliation Week in May 2020, the mining giant Rio Tinto destroyed two Juukan Gorge sites belonging to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) peoples. These sites were said to contain some of the earliest human expressions of symbolic meaning on the planet. They are the only known inland sites showing evidence of continual human occupation back into the last ice age, 46,000 years or more. ...

In summary, Australia’s First Nations peoples—as in the other settler colonies, including Trump’s United States and Bolsonaro’s Brazil, to which we might well add Trudeau’s Canada, though perhaps not now Ardern’s Aotearoa/New Zealand—once again find themselves ‘in the way’. Yet the contemporary coupling of the eliminationist cultural logics of settler colonialism and the extractive economic ones of neoliberal capitalism represents a clear and present danger not only to Indigenous peoples, whose lives and lands are directly in the path of these twinned and revivified forces of destruction, but also, now, to all of humanity."


Folks, The senate is proposing to release its report on the Juukan disaster on Wednesday

I think the following piece – see link -  by #DanTout

provides an exceptional analysis of what transpired, but also how it is a systemic and enduring legacy of settler colonialism

arena.org.au/juukan-gorge-destruction-extractivism-and-the-australian-settler-colonial-imagination/

I wonder if I might ask you to circulate amongst your networks, journalistic and other, All the best; Jon

Emeritus Professor Jon Altman School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University Canberra ACT Australia 2601 .. E jon.a...@anu.edu.au

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