Letter to the Editor
The Labor Party’s attempt at reinventing Aboriginal mythology has taken yet another step further into the ridiculous claiming blackfellas at some time in the past mined and re-arranged these large stones each weighing up to one tonne at Lake Bolac in Victoria.
A farmer, Adrian McMaster, has been charged by the state government with harming Aboriginal heritage for allegedly removing part of a stone arrangement representing a short-finned eel.
The communists of Victoria Labor claim Mr McMaster has upset white Aborigines by moving the heavy rocks with earthmoving machinery.
Corporation’s John Clarke if off
in dreamtime
Which begs the question, how did Aborigines excavate these very heavy rocks then move them into some abstruse formation for whatever esoteric ceremony has been dreamt up by Anglo anthropologists.
No Aborigine either modern or Negrito ever shifted these huge, heavy rocks and there is no reputable evidence anywhere in Australia where similar heavy rocks have been shifted by Aborigines.
Any other large stone arrangements that may have been found in Australia would have been the work of other visitors or settlers who frequented Australia in ancient times.
Aborigines shifted only what they could carry themselves usually to manufacture a bora ring or other ceremonial formations constructed with small rocks they could carry.
“Different language groups and different nations would come into this space to celebrate the life cycle of eels,” John Clarke said.
“Such is the cultural importance of the eel, it was the basis of our aquaculture industry,” John Clarke claimed.
Unfortunately Mr Clarke has been reading bogus blackfella, Bruce Pascoe’s villified cook books on how to reinvent the Aboriginal wheel (except they didn’t have one).
Stone fish traps in salt or fresh water have proven to be an issue for misguided archaeologists after numerous descendants of white settlers told how white men built stone fish traps along shallow coastlines in the 18th and up to the early 19th centuries.
However none had stones as large and heavy as these.
Aborigines did build fish traps with stones but by the latter 19th and 20th centuries most had been washed away or removed by European settlement.
Any bureaucrat or pseudo blackfella suggesting Aborigines could carry these large stones has had one too many Covid boosters.
A 60-metre section of the stones, allegedly representing the kooyang (eel’s) tail, was allegedly removed by Mr McMaster on Good Friday three years ago.
He is potentially facing thousands of dollars in fines if found guilty.
From R Williams, Honorary Aboriginal Heritage Archaeologist, Queensland
and Cairns News
Editor: Mr McMaster is one of the owners of the private farmland at Lake Bolac where the stones are located, about 220 kilometres west of Melbourne.
It has been in his family for 120 years.
Mr McMaster’s legal adviser said the stones were never an Aboriginal heritage site and the formation was the remains of an old sheepfold.
