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I owe my existence as do hundreds related to me to an old Wiradjuri woman known by the family ascribed name Bessie

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I owe my existence as do hundreds related to me to an old Wiradjuri woman known by the family ascribed name Bessie, who came to warn my GG Grandmother at Gobarralong in1852 the Murrumbidgee flood was to rise much further and faster than previously experienced. “Missus…Get up hill, fast”, she insisted they must leave immediately to higher ground to save her 10 children with one on the way, two dogs, a cat, a cow, and a horse. It was said my GG Grandmother “had been on the Murrumbidgee for ten years. They knew you had to trust the aborigines. Especially about the weather and the river.” They took what they could in a wheelbarrow and a bucket of hot coals. Through the darkening drizzling sky, ankle deep in squelching mud, apart from a toddler being dropped twice, “Blessed Mary!”, “Holy Mother of God!”, grabbed, “Thank God!” in a flowing waist deep creek crossing they made it to high ground. The house was washed away. GG grandfather who had gone to Gundagai approximately 54 kilometres down

3,000 you say, Mosques celebrating terror you say, a Muslim Doctor celebrating slaughter, vivisection and worse of Other your say, . I just hope the policy makers responsible for this slide into Muslim horror are the first to feal its inevitable claws.

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  3,000 you say, Mosques celebrating terror you say, a Muslim Doctor celebrating slaughter, vivisection and worse of Other your say,   . I just hope the policy makers responsible for this slide into Muslim horror are the first to feal its inevitable claws. “Risk information avoidance is widespread and happens in contexts ranging from the personal to civic spheres.” Planned Risk Information Avoidance, 2019 “There are no safeguards provided by nature against employment of thoroughly inappropriate concepts by communities who are self-harming, apparently wilfully, but actually without realising it.”   The Future of Strategy, Colin S. Grey, 2015 "Pathological altruism is found in any pattern of altruistic behavior that results in severe harm to oneself or others. However, the pathological altruists thinking is also irrational and distorted. That is to say, his or her thinking appears to be characterised by a suspension of logic and reason and respect to the outcomes of their ac