Welcome the the Australian Frontier Conflicts (1788-1940s) website. This website seeks to document the conflicts between European colonists and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples.
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‘Mounted Police and Blacks’ by Godfrey Charles Mundy, 1852.
Depicts the killing of Aboriginals at Slaughterhouse Creek (Waterloo Creek), New South Wales by British troops in 1838. Australian War Memorial ART 50023, www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART50023
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Australian War Memorial needs to own Australian frontier wars
David Stephens, Editor, Honest History, writing for Pearls and Irritations, 7 August 2022: https://johnmenadue.com/australian-war-memorial-needs-to-own-australian-frontier-wars/
Push for heritage recognition of Wombeetch Puyuun monument
Matt Neal of ABC Southwest, Victoria writes about the push to have Heritage Victoria recognise a 19th-century monument and grave honouring warrior Wombeetch Puyuun and the Camperdown district's First People. Memorial to Wombeetch Puyuun and [...]
Frontier Wars: commemorate at the Australian War Memorial
Yet another call for the commemoration of Australia's frontier wars at the Australian War Memorial has been made–this time by Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War. Listen to [...]
Reason and Reckoning: Conversations and Provocations Symposium
Reason and Reckoning: Conversations and Provocations Symposium on the legacy of colonial figures like Sir Samuel Griffith, and his role in the killing of First Nations people in late 19th-century Queensland. Names of 'founding [...]
‘Enabler’ of massacres: the push to change name of Griffith University
Badtjala artist and academic, Fiona Foley, is calling for the name of Griffith University to be changed. The university, located in Queensland was named after Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Australia's first high court justice [...]
Myall Creek Commemoration to be held June long weekend 2022
Historian and author James Wilson-Miller will be the Commemoration Speaker at the Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony on 12 June 2022. James Wilson-Miller is from the Gringai clan of the Hunter Valley Wonnarua nation. He [...]
Jane Morrison 2012–2022