jane2018-05-30T20:52:25+10:00December 6th, 2017|
Ten places in north Queensland, containing the racist word N***** are to be discontinued and renamed. The name changes are to be published in the Queensland Gazette in late September 2017. For more information read Meghna Ball's story on ABC News online updated on 29 August 2017 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-29/ten-racist-names-queensland-wiped-off-maps/8852536
jane2017-12-06T00:29:39+11:00December 6th, 2017|
Murdering Creek is on the southern side of Lake Wyeba, near Noosa, Queensland, Australia. Read Kathy Sundstrom's story about the history of the massacre of Aboriginal people that, occurred about 1864, in The Sunshine Daily, 27 July 2017 at: https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/revealed-the-fascinating-history-of-murdering-cree/3205256/ You can read researcher, Ray Gibbons’ 2015 article ‘Deconstructing colonial myths: the [...]
jane2017-12-06T00:26:23+11:00December 5th, 2017|
Read Kathy Sundstrom's story in the Sunshine Coast Daily, 25 July 2017 at: https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/debate-over-call-to-change-name-of-murdering-creek/3204215/ Murdering Creek is on the southern side of Lake Wyeba near Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Murdering Creek was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in the 1860s. Historians such as Ray Kerkhove, John Windolf, [...]
jane2017-12-05T23:41:54+11:00December 5th, 2017|
Aboriginal Embassy activist, Adrian Charles Davis, 63, has appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on a charge that he refused to leave the disused Lobby restaurant, near the iconic Embassy protest site, when asked to do so by police. The incident took place following the controversial occupation of the former [...]
jane2017-12-06T00:23:31+11:00December 5th, 2017|
'Dharawal people remember horrific Appin Massacre', Stan Grant, 'The Point', NITV News, 5 March 2017 Summary: The Dharawal people of south-west Sydney will remember a massacre 200 years ago that still causes debate and pain. It happened at a place called Appin on April 17 1816. Exactly what happened is [...]
jane2017-12-19T21:38:27+11:00December 5th, 2017|
See Tim Morgan’s story about Mannalargenna on ABC News online, 4 December 2017 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-04/aboriginal-warrior-mannalargenna-rememberred/9222404 […]
jane2017-12-06T00:25:20+11:00November 30th, 2017|
Dozens of people have contacted the Australian Electoral Commission seeking to change the name of the Federal electorate of McMillan. The electorate, in eastern Victoria, is named after Angus McMillan, dubbed ‘the Butcher of Gippsland’ for his role in the massacre of Aboriginal people in the 1800s. The ABC Gippsland [...]
jane2017-12-01T03:58:21+11:00November 30th, 2017|
Aboriginal people have never ceded their Sovereignty, but have experienced genocide and continue to the suffer the effects of dispossession. While the gap is closing between the wider Victorian society and Aboriginal communities in high school completion, kindergarten participation and decreasing infant mortality, Aboriginal people continue to suffer the effects [...]
jane2017-12-05T23:42:49+11:00November 30th, 2017|
Thorpe declares that she will 'fight for' and never sell out' those who feel they are not being counted. Read more in Calla Wahlquist's story in The Guardian, 29 November 2017 at: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/29/lidia-thorpe-finds-her-voice-the-first-indigenous-woman-to-do-so-in-victorian-parliament
jane2017-12-01T04:00:56+11:00November 30th, 2017|
Lidia Thorpe speaking on the second day of a two-day National Gathering, held at the Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, Australia on 4 and 5 November 2017 - Photo by Jane Morrison Activist Lidia Thorpe is the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Victorian Parliament and the Greens [...]
