Cartoon by David Pope of The Canberra Times. I agree with dog that this is one of the greatest Australian cartoons of all time.
Will Grant: “If I was Prime Minister I’d force the Australian War Memorial to commemorate the war between settler / indigenous Australia. Of course, I’d then only be Prime Minister for 15 minutes. But it’d be a blast.”
“Conservative estimates have the number of Indigenous people killed as a direct result of conflict with settlers and colonial forces at 200,000 (not a typo) not counting those who died due to secondary effects of colonialism like disease, hunger, etc. The number of Europeans who died in those circumstances is estimated to be between 2000 and 2500. Lest we forget, indeed.” - Stephanie Convery (Source: Henry Reynolds, ‘The Other Side of the Frontier’, p. 121-125.)
