There’s an old saying: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”. Most celebrities, it seems, have never heard that saying. Probably because they couldn’t hear over the din of their own witless yapping. Every time these overpaid idiots open their mouths — which is incessantly — they remove all doubts about their foolishness.
Actor Tasma Walton has used a story about former prime minister Harold Holt’s disappearance being linked to mermaids as evidence in a significant native title dispute covering land from Werribee to Wilsons Promontory.
Oh, boy… you thought it was hilarious when Nanaia Mahuta invoked taniwha? That’s nothing, we’ve got… drumroll… Aboriginal mermaids!
Holt disappeared after swimming at a beach near Portsea in 1967. Walton said her grandmother had told her Holt “shouldn’t have been swimming there”.
Asked by the Bunurong’s lawyer why, Walton told the court: “Well, that is mermaid country. Her belief was that [mermaids] took him.”
Walton said identifying as Indigenous was important to her.
Gee, I wonder why?
Several members of the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation are challenging expert evidence that supports a native title application from the Boon Wurrung Land and Sea Council covering 13,000 square kilometres along Victoria’s coast […]
The court will decide if Walton and the others are descended from apical ancestors who were traditional owners of Bunurong/Boonwurrung Country at the time of colonisation by Europeans.
Walton told the court her Aboriginal heritage comes from her mother’s side, descending from Eliza Nowan – sometimes known as Eliza Gamble – who the Bunurong claim was a traditional owner of the area known today as Port Phillip Bay.
Except that the evidence says otherwise.
Genealogical evidence in an expert report provided by Dr Ian Clark that supports the application of the Boon Wurrung group disputes the Bunurong/Boon Wurrung heritage of Nowan-Gamble, instead posing that she may have been a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman taken earlier by white sealers who went on to establish a settlement or temporary camp at Western Port, Victoria, from the 1820s.
As for Walton’s claim to be Aboriginal…
Although Walton, her mother and her grandmother did not identify publicly as Aboriginal, it was known within her family, she said.
The Age
Not well known enough, though, for Walton to actually know about it.
Rove McManus‘ actress wife Tasma Walton has spoken about discovering her indigenous heritage after receiving an ‘unknown’ result on a DNA test.
The 44-year-old, whose father left her as a child, went searching for answers with a DNA blood test.
Speaking to TV Week magazine on Monday, the former Blue Heelers star said ‘pieces in the puzzle were missing,’ when it came to questions about where she came from.
The test declared her background 93 per cent British and seven per cent unknown.
Do these clowns even hear themselves? Just “7% unknown” DNA, and suddenly, she’s as Aboriginal as Albert Namtjira and Truganini rolled into one.
And here we were, thinking only Nazis and Klansmen believed in a “one drop rule”.
Just to underscore Walton’s blatant self-contradiction:
The revelation took the starlet by surprise, with her then discovering the traumatic history of her ancestors.
‘It took me a long time to discover my indigenous heritage,’ Tasma said.
Daily Mail
So, it was known within her family, but she never knew about it?
I mean, come on… we know that actors’ entire fortune hangs on their ability to play pretends, but do they really expect that the rest of us are so gullible?
