Submitted by Paul Daley on
A century ago, Fernando travelled to Europe in self-imposed exile to protest the massacres of Indigenous people in Australia. Once there he was interned and deported to Britain – where he took the fight to the streets
It is the London winter of 1928. Fog blankets the city.
Pedestrians and commuters along one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares are arrested at the spectacle directly outside the Edwardian baroque marble facade of Australia House on the corner of the Strand and Aldwych.
This is all that Australia has left of my people
Fernando assumed the appearance of an Old Testament prophet
His skeletons stood not only for acts of murder but for the enduring nature of Aboriginal history and memory
It is all Tommy rot to say that we are savages. Whites shoot, slowly hang, or starve us
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