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Old Times in the Kimberley

The new generation of Australian business pooh-bahs proudly call themselves social justice warriors but as such they can’t hold a candle, let alone a spear, to the indigenous warriors of our very recent past. Stamp their little feet as they do, shriek shrilly and appoint as many Behavioural Awareness Officers as they wish, but indigenous men and women as recently as the first quarter of the last century would have left them battered, or dead, in the dust and in some instances might even have eaten them. Life in Australia pre-settlement was a bloody affair, even around the home campfires,…

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