By Andrew Taylor
The future of another monument in Hyde Park (click here) is in doubt as Tony Abbott took to the airwaves to claim statues of Captain James Cook will be torn down if Bill Shorten becomes prime minister.
Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore told Fairfax Media she had referred concerns about a statue of Governor Lachlan Macquarie to the council's Indigenous advisory panel "for their consideration and in particular their advice on how the City can most effectively play a role in progressing equality and redress past injustices"....
..."I believe he should not be honoured in this way," Ms Allas said. "He ordered and sanctioned the murder of innocent people including children. How is it possible to honour such a fellow and still believe our society is a just society?"...
...The curator of With Secrecy and Despatch, a 2016 exhibition that explored Macquarie's role in the killings of Indigenous people in western Sydney, Ms Allas said: "He was the one who ordered the first massacre and from that massacre instructed the offending troops to hang the victims from trees so as to "strike the greater terror" into any survivors....
It is easy to be a great governor if one slaughters and terrorizes those that oppose him. He received his moral authority to massacre because New South Wales was considered a penal colony. He could do what he wanted. He didn't like the thought of being another Governor Bligh. He was scared and he was able to put real fear into the people so he could make his perfect world. He also had high regard for himself. No doubt being Governor of a penal colony was beneath him.
He built a civilization out of his assignment, but, the real question is at what cost? It would seem history likes it's polished version. Saintlike.
...The curator of With Secrecy and Despatch, a 2016 exhibition that explored Macquarie's role in the killings of Indigenous people in western Sydney, Ms Allas said: "He was the one who ordered the first massacre and from that massacre instructed the offending troops to hang the victims from trees so as to "strike the greater terror" into any survivors....
It is easy to be a great governor if one slaughters and terrorizes those that oppose him. He received his moral authority to massacre because New South Wales was considered a penal colony. He could do what he wanted. He didn't like the thought of being another Governor Bligh. He was scared and he was able to put real fear into the people so he could make his perfect world. He also had high regard for himself. No doubt being Governor of a penal colony was beneath him.
He built a civilization out of his assignment, but, the real question is at what cost? It would seem history likes it's polished version. Saintlike.
