invasion – Illegal – no Jurisdiction – 

no Authority

1768 James Cook’s Secret Instructions

Secret Instructions for Lieutcenant James Cook Appointed to Command His Majesty’s Bark the Endeavour 30 July 1768. The full Secret Instructions are contained in six pages of the Letterbook. The pages are yellowed paper, the ink faded to brown. The Letterbook has a stiff cover with a marbled pattern and is housed in a case covered in paper of a similar marbled pattern. Paper with a heavier patterned cover. Dimensions: 430mm high x 337mm wide x 30mm deep.

James Cook made three voyages to the South Pacific between 1768 and 1779 and on each occasion carried Secret Instructions from the British Admiralty. These contained an outline of the route of the voyage, described the activities he and his men were to undertake, and the manner in which he was to report his progress. They were secret in that they held the real intentions and plans for the voyage, while other papers issued would be made available on demand to show Cook’s authority for his command and the enterprise.

On his first voyage, Cook sailed in the Endeavour to Tahiti (to assist in the scientific observation of the transit of the planet Venus) and then as instructed, sailed south in search of the fabled ‘Great Southern Continent’.

The Secret Instructions provided that, in the event that he found the Continent, he should chart its coasts, obtain information about its people, cultivate their friendship and alliance, and annex any convenient trading posts in the King’s name. Cook followed the coast of New Zealand (thereby debunking Abel Tasman’s theory that it formed part of the southern continent), then turned west, reaching the southern coast of New South Wales on 20 April 1770. He sailed north, landing at Botany Bay one week later, before continuing to chart the Australian coast all the way north to the tip of Queensland. There, on Possession Island, just before sunset on Wednesday 22 August 1770, he declared the coast a British possession:

Notwithstand[ing] “I had in the Name of His Majesty taken possession of several places upon this coast, I now once more hoisted English Coulers and in the Name of His Majesty King George the Third took possession of the whole Eastern Coast . . . by the name New South Wales, together with all the Bays, Harbours Rivers and Islands situate upon the said coast, after which we fired three Volleys of small Arms which were Answerd by the like number from the Ship”

Cook had recorded signs that the coast was inhabited during the voyage north, and here he noted as he returned to the ship the great number of fires on all the land and islands about them, a certain sign they are Inhabited.
Cook then sailed through Torres Strait, returning to England in May 1771.

1770 – Genocide & Assimilation

  • Invasion of the British and the Commencement of Assimilation Policies Colonisation of Country
  • Apartheid commenced against the Ancestral Owners of Ngurangbang
  • Slavery
  • Murder
  • Biological Warfare – Introduction of Blankets Riddled with Smallpox
  • Repeated Massacres – Declaration of Martial Law 1824
  • Aboriginal Protection Act 1869 – 1960s Gave extensive powers over the lives of the Original People of Ngurangbang to the government, including regulation of residence, employment and marriage. Original people were losing their freedom. In 1871 the government developed controls over where people could live and work, what they could do and who they could meet or marry. They removed Original children from their families, starting the process that created the stolen generation. The separation from family and communities caused distress, leading to protests
  • 1888 – Original People population reduced by 220,000 Australia-wide to an estimated 80,000
  • 1901 Federation
  • Continuous dysfunctional Federal & State Governments, acts, policies & agencies
  • Politician’s Federal & State to be personally accountable for their flawed & manufactured decision making
  • By abolishing all below will save 34 billion dollars annually, labeled by many as “The Indigenous Industry”, with only a small fraction of the billions reaching the ground
  • White Australia Policy
  • Assimilation policy 1937 – assimilation means, in practical terms, that it is expected that all persons of Aboriginal birth or mixed blood in Australia will live like white Australians
  • The NSW Land Rights Act 1983 NSW
  • Aboriginal Land Councils
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)
  • Native Title Act (amended by Unlawful governments)
  • Amend Native Title Act 1996 10 Point Plan “WIK Vs Queensland”
  • National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT)
  • Native Title Services (NTSCorp)
  • Office Registered Indigenous Corporations (ORIC)
  • Indigenous Land Council (ILC)
  • Office of Environment & Heritage (OEH) all sites after 2021 if not recorded in the data base are at risk of obliteration
  • Atrocities against Original People in custody
  • Intervention 2007 (suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act)