It really is amazing that these people have the nerve to step out in public. Sitting in a golden throne, covered in gold and silver, sitting next to an item that is absolutely covered in the blood of colonialism.
… The middle of Australia is desert now, but it was once an ancient salty sea. The Browne Formation
is a well-characterized and dated stratigraphic unit from central
Australia, dating back to the Neoproterozoic. It includes extensive
halite, indicative of an ancient marine environment.
Using a core
sample from the Browne Formation extracted by the Geological Survey
of Western Australia in 1997, Schreder-Gomes and her colleagues were
able to conduct investigations of unaltered Neoproterozoic halite using
nothing but non-invasive optical methods. This left the halite intact;
which, importantly, means that anything inside had to have been trapped
at the time the crystals formed. …
