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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 [...]
Elder overjoyed at Darumbal massacre site handback
https://nit.com.au/aunty-sallys-joy-as-massacre-site-handed-back-to-darumbal-people/ Also have a look at the earlier post on this website today, 24 April 2022, about the handover of control of this reserve to the Darumbul people.
Control over sacred site returned to the Darumbal people
Control over a sacred site where 300 First Nations people were massacred in the late 1800s has been handed back to the Darumbal people. The Queensland Government's latest move gives trusteeship to the Gawula [...]
New book on ‘the great Australian silence’ of our history
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/
Jane Morrison 2012–2022