My Family Owned Tannum Sands

At Tannum Sands High School in Queensland, they have a ceremony thanking the original owners of Tannum for allowing them on their land.

When I first heard about this, I thought they were honoring my granddad Alf Booth who owned Tannum, but no, they’re referencing the Aboriginals who built nothing. My zayde brought sewage to Tannum!

Alf Booth, Luke Ford at age 3

With my granddad when I was three.

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My zayde’s Tannum Sands before the goyim got their hands on it and ruined everything.

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The landed gentry of Tannum Sands at Downton Abbey Down Under gathering for a sumptuous feast on my 48th birthday.

According to Wikipedia:

Tannum Sands State High School is a member of the Australia-wide “Dare to Lead” project, aimed at improving educational outcomes for indigenous students. The school’s Indigenous Support Team works on building relationships to engage indigenous community members, tertiary institutions and all school personnel, as well as partnering with Indigenous Role Models and mentors to support students in achieving their goals.

As a result of this program, Queensland now overflows with Aboriginal doctors.

Alex Trivunovic ‘Dare to lead’ should be ‘dare to read’.

Lilian D’Or Wow, seriously?? LOL!!! I needed a good laugh today.
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Alex Trivunovic So you’re landed gentry, eh?
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Susan Williams The Ford/Booths are the leading family in Queensland…..
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Alex Trivunovic Is that true? So Luke is just another neurotic rich kid? And here i was, thinking he was some adventurer from the outback, like Errol Flynn or Paul Hogan.
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Alex Trivunovic Crocodile Moshe is one of my nicknames for him. Or was, anyway.
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Susan Williams That is so fabulous Alex….
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Lilian D’Or Crocodile Moshe? I absolutely love it!!
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Susan Williams Much nicer than Dick Dundee his name from his past unmentionable life….
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Chaim Amalek I wonder if the day will ever come when the Jews of Israel will do likewise with respect to the Palestinians.
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Lilian D’Or I thought he was the white kid raised by Aborigines, running around the Outback. This is news to me, not that I know he is from the actual founders.
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Alex Trivunovic Yeah, just another evil colonialist cisgendered oppresor of women, natives, and sexual minorities.
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Susan Williams Luke is from the ruling class of mixed race.
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Alex Trivunovic Is he? What mix?
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Susan Williams Chinese
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Alex Trivunovic For real? Learning a lot about Luke today.
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Susan Williams It is in his blog….
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Alex Trivunovic Must have missed it. I’ve been reading him for years, but he posts so often i’ve probably only read half of his stuff.
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Lilian D’Or I’ve read his blog many times, I have it on my favourite bookmark. it’s fun to read, which I find it interesting because I have never been much of a reader yet find I do have the patience to read internet articles and blogs. Anyways, the best post I ever read was a public journal (maybe because I knew some of the people in that post). It just made me wonder, does he write about all of us in his journal? What does he say? It’s just intriguing. Oh, also, I knew about the ancestry from him posting about it on facebook.
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Susan Williams The names in Australia to watch out for are Pauline Hanson, Joh Beijelke Peterson and Ford/Booth…..Great Australians all.
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Alex Trivunovic He’s quoted me a couple of times on his blog. I won’t lie, it was a proud moment for me.
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Lilian D’Or I do like the “Lil writes” parts of the blog. You have a right to remain silent, everything you say can and will be posted on his blog.
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Lilian D’Or Me too!
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Susan Williams He has never quoted me but then he is not into mature!
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Alex Trivunovic Love Pauline. And Margaret Court. Two of my fave Aussies.
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Susan Williams Loool Pauline you know her…..
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Alex Trivunovic She was that nationalist politician, right?
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Susan Williams Nutcase
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Alex Trivunovic I honestly don’t know much about her, but she annoyed this Aussie friend of mine, so i always liked her.
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Susan Williams Made Sarah Palin look like an intellectual!
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About Luke Ford

I've written five books (see Amazon.com). My work has been covered in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and on 60 Minutes. I teach Alexander Technique in Beverly Hills (Alexander90210.com).
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