5/11/2023 0 Comments Alison page designer![]() ![]() Shooting the action at Kamay on a digital cinema camera It’s a story I have heard echoed by Aboriginal people in many parts of Australia, from the southern wilds of Victoria to the tip of Cape York. ![]() Talking to Ray Ingrey of the Gujaga Foundation in La Perouse, I found out that the meaning of ‘warrawarrawa’ relates to our peoples’ deep beliefs about reincarnation. So what these men were yelling, probably to their own mob, was that these visitors were all dead, they were all ghosts. The true translation of ‘warra’ in the Dharawal language is ‘dead’. Certainly, there were two men who seemed apprehensive about the arrival of this ‘big canoe’ - but, as it turns out, this was for very different reasons. ![]() Go away, I had supposed, because Cook had written in his journal entry for 29 April 1770, ‘as we approached the shore, they all made off except two Men who seem’d resolved to oppose our landing’. That was the translation of the word inscribed on a simple monument at Captain Cook’s landing place at Kurnell. Ricky Campbell and Richard Silva as the two warriors who confront Cook at Kamay (Botany Bay) ![]()
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