"Those who want to engage in judgements of things that happened 250 years ago and ignore the context of the period do history and themselves a disservice..."
- Scott Morrison today
"My mother would sit and cry and tell me this; they buried our babies in the ground with only their heads above the ground. All in a row they were. Then they had tests to see who could kick the babies’ head off the furthest. One man clubbed a baby’s head off from horseback.
They then spent the rest of the day raping the women, most of whom were then tortured to death by sticking sharp things like spears up their vaginas till they died.
They tied the men’s hands behind their backs, then cut off their penis and testicles and watched them run around screaming until they died. They killed in other bad ways too."
- Account quoted in Jan Roberts, Massacres to Mining: The Colonisation of Aboriginal Australia, 1981
If you ignore the context of the period of history, you do this massacre a disservice.