jane2022-06-05T14:16:05+10:00June 5th, 2022|
Reason and Reckoning: Conversations and Provocations Symposium on the legacy of colonial figures like Sir Samuel Griffith, and his role in the killing of First Nations people in late 19th-century Queensland. Names of 'founding fathers' like Griffith's are still widespread throughout the Australian landscape and Australian institutions. 'This symposium, [...]
jane2022-06-05T13:45:28+10:00June 5th, 2022|
Badtjala artist and academic, Fiona Foley, is calling for the name of Griffith University to be changed. The university, located in Queensland was named after Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Australia's first high court justice and an author of the Australian Constitution. Sir Samuel Griffith was an attorney-general or Queensland [...]
jane2024-02-01T14:31:36+11:00May 1st, 2022|
Historian and author James Wilson-Miller will be the Commemoration Speaker at the Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony on 12 June 2022. James Wilson-Miller is from the Gringai clan of the Hunter Valley Wonnarua nation. He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. For 16 years Mr Wilson-Miller was Curator [...]
jane2022-04-24T14:49:11+10:00April 24th, 2022|
https://nit.com.au/aunty-sallys-joy-as-massacre-site-handed-back-to-darumbal-people/ Also have a look at the earlier post on this website today, 24 April 2022, about the handover of control of this reserve to the Darumbul people.
jane2022-04-24T10:53:41+10:00April 24th, 2022|
Control over a sacred site where 300 First Nations people were massacred in the late 1800s has been handed back to the Darumbal people. The Queensland Government's latest move gives trusteeship to the Gawula Aboriginal Land Trust of a 13.5-hectare reserve at the foot of Gai-i (formerly Mt Wheeler) [...]
jane2022-04-24T08:45:25+10:00April 18th, 2022|
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/
jane2022-10-05T13:59:56+11:00March 16th, 2022|
Lorena Allam writes in The Guardian, on 16 March 2022, about a 1981 poisoning of First Nations people at Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Two Aboriginal people died and 14 were admitted to hospital after unwittingly drinking from a poisoned bottle of sherry that was deliberately left near the town's John [...]
jane2022-03-16T15:41:05+11:00March 16th, 2022|
The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed report in The Guardian on 16 March 2022 about the final update of a mapping project that documents massacres of Aboriginal people. The University of Newcastle's latest project update adds 113 more sites where [...]
jane2022-03-07T14:13:15+11:00March 7th, 2022|
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on 7 March 1772, a First Nations man was killed in Tasmania'a south-east during a violent encounter between Europeans and Aboriginal people. Marion Bay, named after the French explorer, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, the first European to encounter Tasmanian Aboriginal people when he landed at [...]
jane2024-02-01T14:09:45+11:00February 10th, 2022|
Dan Bourchier, ABC News, Canberra, traces the 50 years of history and continuing relevance of Canberra's Aboriginal Embassy. New item not currently (1 February 2024) available on ABCiView. Similar news items appeared in other news outlets at the time. "The Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 50: the history of an [...]
