Commemoration of Dundalee

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1. More deadly speeches
   This time in the rain 
   The crowd was treated 
   to a treble -
   Two water blessings 
   And a smoking!
   
   Dundalee proud warrior 
   of the age
   When will they recognise
   you in school
   and no longer treat
   us like the fool
   
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   Spirits of Pemulwuy, Yagan, Jundamurra
   They join us in the circle
   Round the sacred fire
   While the cops and fire-ees watch on
   Brother Bud sings it up good
   In the place where you stood
   
   In Post Office square that day
   Proud Dundalee, born in Blackbutt 
   You put up a fight for fourteen years 
   Uniting all the tribes against the gubba 
   So they broke your legs and hung you
   from the scaffold like a convict
    
   Now they take your children 
   in another way
   Not with chains
   but with their blind laws
   and no regret.
   
   But we thirty
   We shall not forget
   As we stand
   Cleansed by smoke and rain
   We remember how you fought
   So strong, So true.
   
     - Ian Curr
       dedicated to the warrior
       poet, Dusty (1965 - 2014)

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