jane

Monuments to Aboriginals’ 1842 execution ‘first step’ to recognising brutal past

jane2017-12-06T02:57:08+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Carolyn Webb, The Age, 11 September 2016 Read more at: https://www.theage.com.au/victoria/monument-to-aboriginals-1842-execution-first-step-to-recognising-brutal-past-20160911-grdvbx.html More about the story of these two significant Aboriginal warriors is on the City of Melbourne's website at: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-melbourne/melbourne-profile/aboriginal-culture/Pages/tunnerminnerwait-and-maulboyheener.aspx

Frontier Wars wing needed

jane2022-10-05T15:25:37+11:00November 6th, 2017|

A Frontier Wars wing at the Australian War Memorial would help improve the perceptions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have of themselves, would fundamentally change the distorted perception many Australians have of our history, and would potentially change the relationship between First Peoples and other Australians. An opinion [...]

Victory for Gweagal man Rodney Kelly in fight to have artefacts returned from British museums

jane2017-12-06T03:17:53+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Lucy McNally, ABC News online, 23 August 2016 In 1770, Cooman, a Gweagal man, was shot in the leg in an encounter with Captain James Cook and his crew on the shores of Botany Bay, Sydney. During the incident Cooman dropped his shield. Rodney Kelly, a descendant of Cooman, is [...]

The Untold Story Behind the Wave Hill Walk-Off

jane2017-12-06T03:27:18+11:00November 6th, 2017|

The Conversation, Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland, updated 20 August 2016 Many Australians know about the Wave Hill Walk-off 50 years ago on 23 August 1966 that led to the Aboriginal Land Rights movement. What is little known is that the walk-off followed eighty years of massacres, killings and ill [...]

Myall Creek Smoking Ceremony

jane2017-12-06T03:29:34+11:00November 6th, 2017|

The crowd participates in a smoking ceremony at Myall Creek Memorial site, 16 June 2016 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-16/myall-creek-smoking-ceremony/7516318

REVEALED: Who is Aboriginal warrior Multuggerah

jane2017-12-06T03:30:29+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Andrew Backhouse, The Chronicle, Toowoomba, Queensland, 9 May 2016 Read more at: https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/aboriginal-warrior-battled-elite-british-soldiers/3020583/a>

Anzac Day 2016–Remembering the Frontier Wars, Conflicts and Massacres

jane2017-11-06T02:10:52+11:00November 6th, 2017|

On 25 April 2016, Australians, New Zealanders, friends and former foes, commemorated the 101st landing at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War I as well as the fallen in other international conflicts. This year marks 100 years since the beginning of campaigns on the Western Front in France. While many Aboriginal [...]

Cal Flyn: the terrible truths in my family history

jane2017-11-06T03:22:56+11:00November 6th, 2017|

The Australian, 23 April 2016 In an extract from her new book, Thicker Than Water, published by HarperCollins on 26 April 2016, Cal Flyn talks about the massacre at Warrigal Creek in July 1843 in which between 80 to 200 Gunai (Kurnai) people were slaughtered. Ms Flyn also lists other [...]

Appin Massacre

jane2023-09-11T14:11:16+10:00November 6th, 2017|

The Dictionary of Sydney, archived in 2021, is still searchable: https://dictionaryofsydney.org The Dictionary covers many subjects about the history of Sydney, like the Appin Massacre that happened in 1816. Read more: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/search?query=Appin+Massacre Compiled by Jane Morrison 2012–23 Updated 11 September 2023.

Call to halt Sydney light rail after massive Indigenous artefact find

jane2017-11-06T02:03:56+11:00November 6th, 2017|

The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 March 2016 Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-to-halt-sydney-light-rail-after-massive-indigenous-artefact-find-20160329-gnsxr4.html#ixzz44Y3164z7/a>

About jane