jane, Author at Australian Frontier Conflicts

New book reveals top-end view of Australian history

jane2025-11-23T12:23:32+11:00November 23rd, 2025|

Historian Raymond Evans reviews Professor Henry Reynolds' new book, Looking From the North: Australian History from the Top Down, NewSouth, November 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/heat-terror-and-resistance-henry-reynolds-bold-new-book-takes-a-top-end-view-of-australian-history/?utm_source=Pearls+%26+Irritations&utm_campaign=61b37e7a62-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0c6b037ecb-61b37e7a62-589123391 More from publishers NewSouth: 'Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to [...]

Massacre near Geraldton WA: Traditional owners call for colonist’s diaries to be released in full

jane2025-08-05T12:36:14+10:00August 5th, 2025|

Read more about the Logue diaries and a massacre coverup in the story by Sara Collard, Lena Allam and Ella Archibald-Binge, The Guardian online, 5 August 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/05/the-descendants-traditional-owners-call-for-diaries-of-wa-settler-who-killed-aboriginal-people-to-be-released-in-full-ntwnfb See also the previous post on this website dated 4 August 2025.

Killings hidden in WA colonist’s coded diaries

jane2025-08-04T12:29:23+10:00August 4th, 2025|

Coded diary entries from an early colonist in the Geraldton area of Western Australia reveal killings of Yamatji Aboriginal people in retaliation for cattle stealing. Read more about these atrocities in Paul Gallagher's story in The Guardian, Morning Mail and related podcasts, 4 August 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/morning-mail-monday-ntwnfb and [...]

Yoorrook Justice Commission finds genocide happened in Victoria

jane2025-08-05T12:43:06+10:00August 4th, 2025|

Revelations from Victoria'a Yoorrook Justice Commission throws more light on the atrocities that occurred across Australia during the frontier period. Read more in the story by Nate Woodall and Kate Ashton on ABC News, 2 July 2025: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/yoorrook-justice-inquiry-key-findings-takeaways/105483168 You can access the Yoorrook Justice Commission here: https://www.yoorrook.org.au/history/victorias-history-to-now There is [...]

Histories of Australia’s Frontier Wars reveal complexity; more needed

jane2025-08-04T08:14:34+10:00July 7th, 2025|

An article in The Conversation, 7 July 2025 reviews historian Stephen Gapps' recent publication, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, NewSouth Publishing, 2025: https://theconversation.com/a-defiant-stand-histories-of-australias-frontier-wars-are-revealing-their-true-complexity-but-theres-more-to-be-done-253233 The Australian Frontier Conflicts website has more on publications like Uprising about frontier conflicts and wars, see for example: Bibliography, Books, [...]

‘A gift to the people of Victoria’: here’s what mob think of Yoorook’s truth findings

jane2025-07-07T17:47:59+10:00July 7th, 2025|

Here's a recent update on Victoria's Yoorook Justice Commission: Findings of genocide, the importance of Treaty and redress, and of the truth-telling process. Read more in Cameron Gooley's story, 'A gift to the people of Victoria': here's what mob think of Yoorook's truth findings, National Indigenous Television (NITV), 3 July [...]

Myall Creek Massacre Memorial 25th Anniversary 6–8 June 2025

jane2025-05-20T17:02:41+10:00May 20th, 2025|

Pilbara Strike tells story of strength and resilience

jane2025-05-07T17:35:58+10:00May 7th, 2025|

Nearly eighty years ago, First People walked off stations in the Pilbara, Western Australia in what has become known as the Pilbara Strike. Like the later more famous 1966 Wave Hill Walkout in the Northern Territory, the Pilbara Strike is a story of resistance, resilience and strength carried on [...]

Kate Grenville’s questions about our 5000 war memorials

jane2025-05-20T17:16:27+10:00May 7th, 2025|

Kate Grenville's new book, Unsettled: A journey through time and place, Black Inc., 2025, deals with Australian history from the point of view of a descendant of people who dispossessed land from First Peoples, who were living around today's Wiseman's Ferry near Sydney and beyond in the colony of [...]

Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 25 April 2025

jane2025-04-15T19:04:28+10:00April 15th, 2025|

Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 9am 25/4/25 Media Alert 15 April 2025 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 calls out for [...]

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