Frontier Wars 16th Remembrance March, Canberra, 25 April 2026

LEST WE FORGET THE FRONTIER WARS AND CONFLICTS

The 16th Remembrance March will be held in Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2026.

Gather at 9.30am (or earlier) Cnr Anzac Parade and Constitution Avenue, Reid, Australian Capital Territory (or as otherwise advised).

ALL WELCOME. Bring a banner or flowers

Message from the originator of the march and commemoration ceremony

Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic invites participation in the

16^th March to Remember the Frontier Wars and Conflicts

Sixteen years ago I orchestrated a march to commemorate the Frontier Wars and Conflicts supported by about 15 solid supporters who, like me, believed  it was time to formally recognise our fallen in defence of their inherent right to defend our Country, lands and waters. The first six marches are recorded in the documentary Moving Truth  https://vimeo.com/214091130

There were many thousands of our people who never knew of the brutality and disregard for human life when the invading British squattocracy came upon them and killed them with impunity. See: https://australianfrontierconflicts.com.au

In recognition of the murderous actions of these men, the Crown rewarded them with title to the lands of the murdered ancient owners. The Australian courts today shelter those who benefit from these crimes, because the elephant in the room that the courts refuse to recognise is: how could they and the Crown benefit from such crimes against humanity–something that we are all now confronted with given the current Middle East wars and genocide.

At my personal meeting with David Hurley AC CVO DSC (Retd), the then Governor of New South Wales, who later became Governor-General of Australia, I presented an oral submission to him: If you want me to promote and work with Reconciliation Australia then first help me bury my dead, who were shot by a posse led by Con Bride at a location that is now called Hospital Creek nine miles [14 km] north east of Brewarrina, north-west New South Wales. It is recorded in an interview with Con Bride that he organised a posse to kill our People, because he got tired of seeing dismembered cattle and sheep he had imported to the area, dead animals with spears sticking out of their bodies. In 1859 he was reported as saying that he asked our people to leave the area but they refused. For his murderous transgressions he, like others of his ilk, was rewarded title to the land of the Peoples he killed, and so the Crown and he benefited from the proceeds of this crime, along with their successors.

The hatred in this story can be best described by the Greek play Antigone. Our Peoples are aggrieved by the injustices of past Governors and Ministers of the Crown, because they ignored the massacres and murders against our Peoples. Our ancient Law demands the dead are revered and buried with Respect, just as your culture dictates. The classic Story Antigone by Sophocles, profoundly exposes the consequences that flow from ‘the choice of sacrilege’. When King Creon forbade the burying of Antigone’s brother, Antigone defied the King in order to uphold the sacredness of ‘the one law always was and shall forever be’. She challenged the King in her defence:

“No edict of yours could ever outweigh the law ordained by the gods, the unwritten law, unchanging for all eternity, its origin lost in time!

         I can face death, but I cannot leave my brother unburied!

         You may think me foolish. Then you may be the greater fool!

         … One law rules all the dead!”

Murderous acts have been, and are, played out right throughout this country and yet the courts refuse to accept that there were original owners of this country, who held an ancient title, a bare legal title, that they held in trust for future generations–a legal structure that remains in place and survived two Ice Ages.

Whilst some may argue that the Crown played no part in ordering the killings of what they referred to as the native populations, the Crown did benefit from illegal acts, something the Australian courts refuse to consider. In their minds they hide behind the democratic legislative processes, the black letter law, thereby doing a huge wrong for a little right,

This 16^th march on 25 April 2026 to Remember the Frontier Conflicts and Wars is for us to parade in public the big elephant in the room. If you believe in justice and detest what is happening in Gaza and the Zionist ambitions to push for a scorched earth policy throughout the Middle East, then I ask you to give some thought to how the British succeeded here in Australia.

We need not go overseas to protest wrongdoings, we just need to look in our own backyard.

I am pleased to know that the Australian War Memorial Council has in recent times given thought as to how it can incorporate the recognition of the elephant in the room, and to this extent I have formally invited the Chair, the Hon. Kim Beazley AC; the Director, Matt Anderson PSM; and other members of Council, Wing Commander (Retd) Sharon Bown AM; Mr Peter Tinley AM; Ms Lesley Always; Major General Wade Stothart AO DSC CSC (Retd); Mr Glenn Keys AO; Dr Susan Neuhaus AM CSC; The Hon. Warren Snowdon; and Dr Karen Bird to walk with us this Anzac Day in the March to Remember the Frontier Wars and Conflicts to show their efforts to reconcile with us, the First Nations Peoples who are descendants of those who have fallen on their own land in defence of Country.

Contact:
Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson
Convenor of Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia
and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic

Email: ghillar29@gmail.com  Mobile: 0499 080 660