{"id":64740,"date":"2015-03-01T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64740"},"modified":"2015-03-01T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T22:30:20","slug":"my-family-owned-tannum-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64740","title":{"rendered":"My Family Owned Tannum Sands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.tannumshs.eq.edu.au\/\">Tannum Sands High School<\/a> in Queensland, they have a ceremony thanking the original owners of Tannum for allowing them on their land. <\/p>\n<p>When I first heard about this, I thought they were honoring my granddad Alf Booth who owned Tannum, but no, they&#8217;re referencing the Aboriginals who built nothing. My zayde brought sewage to Tannum!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/alf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/alf-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"Alf Booth, Luke Ford at age 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/alf-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/alf.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>With my granddad when I was three.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum1-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Tannum Sands\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum1.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>My zayde&#8217;s Tannum Sands before the goyim got their hands on it and ruined everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"tannum\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tannum.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The landed gentry of Tannum Sands at Downton Abbey Down Under gathering for a sumptuous feast on my 48th birthday. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tannum_Sands_State_High_School\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tannum Sands State High School is a member of the Australia-wide &#8220;Dare to Lead&#8221; project, aimed at improving educational outcomes for indigenous students. The school&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result of this program, Queensland now overflows with Aboriginal doctors. <\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic &#8216;Dare to lead&#8217; should be &#8216;dare to read&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Lilian D&#8217;Or Wow, seriously?? LOL!!! I needed a good laugh today.<br \/>\n49 mins \u00b7 Like<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic So you&#8217;re landed gentry, eh?<br \/>\n48 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 3<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams The Ford\/Booths are the leading family in Queensland&#8230;..<br \/>\n44 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n38 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic Crocodile Moshe is one of my nicknames for him. Or was, anyway.<br \/>\n37 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 3<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams That is so fabulous Alex&#8230;.<br \/>\n36 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Lilian D&#8217;Or Crocodile Moshe? I absolutely love it!!<br \/>\n36 mins \u00b7 Edited \u00b7 Like \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams Much nicer than Dick Dundee his name from his past unmentionable life&#8230;.<br \/>\n33 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Chaim Amalek I wonder if the day will ever come when the Jews of Israel will do likewise with respect to the Palestinians.<br \/>\n32 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 3<\/p>\n<p>Lilian D&#8217;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.<br \/>\n32 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic Yeah, just another evil colonialist cisgendered oppresor of women, natives, and sexual minorities.<br \/>\n31 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams Luke is from the ruling class of mixed race.<br \/>\n30 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic Is he? What mix?<br \/>\n28 mins \u00b7 Like<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams Chinese<br \/>\n24 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic For real? Learning a lot about Luke today.<br \/>\n22 mins \u00b7 Like<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams It is in his blog&#8230;.<br \/>\n21 mins \u00b7 Like<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic Must have missed it. I&#8217;ve been reading him for years, but he posts so often i&#8217;ve probably only read half of his stuff.<br \/>\n20 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Lilian D&#8217;Or I&#8217;ve read his blog many times, I have it on my favourite bookmark. it&#8217;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&#8217;s just intriguing. Oh, also, I knew about the ancestry from him posting about it on facebook.<br \/>\n18 mins \u00b7 Edited \u00b7 Like \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams The names in Australia to watch out for are Pauline Hanson, Joh Beijelke Peterson and Ford\/Booth&#8230;..Great Australians all.<br \/>\n17 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic He&#8217;s quoted me a couple of times on his blog. I won&#8217;t lie, it was a proud moment for me.<br \/>\n17 mins \u00b7 Unlike \u00b7 3<\/p>\n<p>Lilian D&#8217;Or I do like the &#8220;Lil writes&#8221; parts of the blog. You have a right to remain silent, everything you say can and will be posted on his blog.<br \/>\n16 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 2<\/p>\n<p>Lilian D&#8217;Or Me too!<br \/>\n16 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams He has never quoted me but then he is not into mature!<br \/>\n15 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic Love Pauline. And Margaret Court. Two of my fave Aussies.<br \/>\n15 mins \u00b7 Like<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams Loool Pauline you know her&#8230;..<br \/>\n14 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic She was that nationalist politician, right?<br \/>\n14 mins \u00b7 Like<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams Nutcase<br \/>\n13 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Alex Trivunovic I honestly don&#8217;t know much about her, but she annoyed this Aussie friend of mine, so i always liked her.<br \/>\n12 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n<p>Susan Williams Made Sarah Palin look like an intellectual!<br \/>\n12 mins \u00b7 Like \u00b7 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Tannum Sands High School in Queensland, they have a ceremony thanking the original owners of Tannum for allowing them on their land. 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