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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Invasion Day 2026 Magandjin
Description: Uncle Dale Ruska (Stradbroke Island/Yuggerra) framed Australia as a crime scene, tracing colonial violence from Cook’s 1770 observations of Aboriginal fires and the false British claim of terra nullius through military incursions led by Oxley. He recounted the murder of an elder on Minjerribah and Ulipi’s retaliation, the Battle of Big Creek (Anugoray), the Moreton Island massacre, atrocities at Point Lookout, and the “blood-stained sands” at Kanai.
Situating these events within 65,000 years of First Nations sovereignty, he connected historical violence to contemporary injustice, citing the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (with hundreds of recommendations unimplemented and at least...