Rum Rebellion 2025: Pemulwuy vs Macurthur

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' Pemulwuy[a] (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ PEM-əl-woy;[2] c. 1750 – c. 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug,[3] an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales.' - wikipedia

"Two years after the arrival of the First Fleet, Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy began to resist the incursion of white settlers onto his people’s traditional lands.

"Despite being seriously wounded in 1797, he eluded capture until 1802 when he was shot dead. Pemulwuy’s head was cut off and sent to Sir Joseph Banks for his collection." A Bidjigal (Bidgigal) man – one eye had a ‘speck’ or blemish, and one foot was "clubbed" but a Colbee informed the colonists this was an injury inflicted to indicate Pemulwuy’s status as a carradhy or ‘clever man’.- NMA https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/pemulwuy

Governor's of NSW:

1. Captain Arthur Phillip, RN 26 Jan, 1788 to 10 Dec, 1792
2. Captain John Hunter, RN 11 Sept, 1795 to 27 Sept, 1800
3. Captain Philip Gidley King, RN 28 Sept, 1800 to 12 Aug, 1806
4. Captain William Bligh, RN 13 Aug, 1806 to 26 Jan, 1808...https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/about/Pages/A-List-of-Governors-of-New-South-Wales.aspx

Governor King (Bligh's predecessor) sent Banks the severed head of Pemulwuy that Banks had listed as among his "desiderata". -Legacies of colonial violence in natural history collections,Journal of Natural Science Collections, Volume 8, pages 44 - 54

"The upshot of the rebellion was that Bligh returned to England and Macarthur, and others, who had seized on the available opportunities continued to prosper and help build the commercial viability of the developing colony. So that’s one face of the Rum Rebellion/Rum Corps, the emergence of an at-times ruthless (even murderous) entrepreneurial spirit thatfacilitated the development of Australia’s pastoral industries.".."As physicist Richard Feynman said: ‘For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.’
The realities of physics cannot be moved by the comforting distractions and self-delusion of realpolitik. Can humanity act with the necessary integrity?"- Integrity and Complex Systems: The Rum Rebellion or the Shearer’s Strike?, The Jim Carlton Annual Integrity Lecture 2023 was given by Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate, AC, FAA, FRS on 19 April 2023

Pemulwuy: The Aboriginal Guerrilla Warrior who almost broke the British(video also mentions benelong)

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A statue of warrior Pemulwuy in Hyde Park - what do you say, Clover? Peter FitzSimons,Columnist and author, June 14, 2020 

 

 


 

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