The Guugu Yimithirr, whose forbears had encountered Captain Cook near the town that bears his name in 1770, were at risk of collaborating with invading Japanese in 1942, according to the government of the time.
In January he said Muslims who paid for their passports had more right to be in Australia than Anglo Saxons, whose forbears arrived in "shackles".
************************************* I was intrigued by the piece of genealogical research, much discussed in the early part of the week, which suggested that a survey of most people's antecedents would show them to have surprisingly upmarket forbears.
All my forbears were deep-water skippers in the days of sail.
There seems to be some contempt here, about those who purchase objects of such "low taste", which I find troubling – there's only disdain in this work, not the surreal, disturbing or sublime that marks the work of those American forbears who created art with the banal products of popular culture: Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach and Mike Kelley.
Never is it more obvious that our lives become easier than those of our forbears.
Regular overhauls of coach education and youth development mean an academy player should now be better trained than any of his forbears.
The new M5 you see here is a car of different character from any of its forbears.
He told me he felt at home in Westminster since one of his forbears, Rev Herbert Ryle, had become Dean of Westminster before the First World War.
For the first fifty or so pages, as the characters attend parties, find apartments, go on dates, gossip, and squabble with each other, it is easy for the reader to think he knows what he's getting into: the latest example of the postgraduate New York ensemble novel, a genre with many distinguished forbears, Mary McCarthy's "The Group" and Claire Messud's "The Emperor's Children" among them.
Though the theological aspect of Tolstoyism doesn't move any of them as much as it did their forbears, the socialist values that the author espoused remain, along with environmentalism, the guiding forces of their lives.
