BellingenNSW<p>"Indigenous people here speak of the lack of memorials on this land. <br>But every bordered property is a site for dark tourism in Australia. <br>Dark tourism is the effort to seek out destinations of violence and devastation, but it is not hard to see genocide from our front door in this country...Tim Rowse has called the “ongoing colonial encounter sometimes called ‘Australia’”<br>&gt;&gt;<br><a href="https://theconversation.com/dark-tourism-is-attracting-visitors-to-war-zones-and-sites-of-atrocities-in-israel-and-ukraine-why-240119" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/dark-touri</span><span class="invisible">sm-is-attracting-visitors-to-war-zones-and-sites-of-atrocities-in-israel-and-ukraine-why-240119</span></a></p><p>Gumbaynggirr Country is located on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. It is also known as the Bellingen/ Gleniffer Valley and has curated three reserves in the 21st century with memorials which are all named after white settlers:</p><p>The Arthur Keough Reserve (Never Never River) is named after the first settler pioneer families to arrive in the Gleniffer Valley. <br><a href="http://www.bellingennow.com/about/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bellingennow.com/about/index.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a></p><p>Angel Gabriel Capararo 'modernised' the Promised land.<br><a href="http://www.bellingennow.com/Angel_Gabriel_Capararo/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bellingennow.com/Angel_Gabriel</span><span class="invisible">_Capararo/index.html</span></a></p><p>Earl Preston reserve was named after a settler who arrived in 1929<br><a href="http://www.bellingennow.com/Earl_Preston/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bellingennow.com/Earl_Preston/</span><span class="invisible">index.html</span></a></p><p>Nothing about the massacres and the poisoning to death of local Aboriginal people.</p><p>Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1788 to 1930<br><a href="https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia</span><span class="invisible">lmassacres/map.php</span></a><br><a href="https://howlinginfinite.com/2021/03/22/dark-deeds-in-" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">howlinginfinite.com/2021/03/22</span><span class="invisible">/dark-deeds-in-</span></a><br><a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189773560" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/art</span><span class="invisible">icle/189773560</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_poisonings_of_Aboriginal_Australians" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_poi</span><span class="invisible">sonings_of_Aboriginal_Australians</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/GumbaynggirrCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GumbaynggirrCountry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Bellingen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bellingen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Fernmount" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fernmount</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Gleniffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gleniffer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheDrive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MidNorthCoast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MidNorthCoast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/massacres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>massacres</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/memorials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memorials</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/tourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tourism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/DarkTourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkTourism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TuthTelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuthTelling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/denial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>denial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SettlerSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerSociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p>