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No specific day can be Australia Day: Michael Anderson

2022-10-28T10:49:33+11:00January 24th, 2018|

Michael Anderson speaking at the Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, Australia, 26 January 2017. Photo: Jane Morrison Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their supporters call this national holiday on 26 January, 'the Day of Mourning', 'Invasion Day' or 'Survival Day'. For the government, 26 January celebrates the arrival [...]

‘Sweet Country’ preview held in Alice Springs

2018-01-23T00:24:54+11:00January 21st, 2018|

Sweet Country, award-winning director Warwick Thornton's new feature film, has previewed to proud and excited audiences in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Highlighting Australia's Frontier Wars, so far not widely acknowledged, accepted or even known about by 'mainstream Australia', the film depicts early 20th–century colonists' deep fear of Aboriginal resistance, their [...]

‘Australia Day’, Australian history, and airbrushing the Past

2022-10-28T10:35:46+11:00January 12th, 2018|

Invasion Day, Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, 26 January 2017. Photo: Jane Morrison Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sovereignty has never been ceded over the Australian continent and its islands. Aboriginal people continue to call for a treaty or treaties with the dominant power, which, on 26 January 2018 will celebrate [...]

Why Australia Day date should be changed

2018-01-08T00:53:45+11:00January 8th, 2018|

First Peoples and supporters protest, 26 January 2017, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia. Photograph: Jane Morrison 'Change It Ourselves campaign asks people to take a different day off for Australia Day': MANY don’t realise public holidays aren’t set in stone — you can ask for a different day off. Now a [...]

A.B. Original vehicle for driving change across Australia

2018-01-07T23:40:12+11:00January 7th, 2018|

'"We didn't expect to hit the main nerve": A.B. Original on music and activism', Emily Nichol, NITV, 3 January 2018 at: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2017/09/01/we-didnt-expect-hit-main-nerve-ab-original-music-and-activism  

Australian Frontier Conflicts website new Facebook page

2018-01-07T22:13:40+11:00January 7th, 2018|

Hello All, Since this website was updated and went live in late 2017, the Facebook page connected to the site has also changed. If you were a member of the old Facebook page and would like to rejoin, click on the Facebook icon on the front page of this site [...]

Remembering Dundalli and the Frontier Wars

2018-01-03T19:43:38+11:00January 3rd, 2018|

(Image: Courtesy, Meredith Walker) Dundalli was an Aboriginal warrior who fought to protect his people and country from European invasion. On the anniversary of Dundalli's public hanging on 5 January 1855, a remembrance service, led by Bishop Jeremy Greaves, will be held at St Mark's Buderim, Queensland at 2.00 pm on [...]

Remembering the Coniston Massacre

2022-10-06T15:04:54+11:00December 6th, 2017|

In 2013 SBS Television reported the anniversary of the Coniston massacre (or series of conflicts) in which mass killings of Aboriginal people by police and posses of European civilians in 1928 took place in the Northern Territory. That was only about 94 years ago. Read more about what happened [...]

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