Frontier Wars

Mithaka cultural landscape placed on National Heritage List

jane2025-12-06T16:34:58+11:00December 6th, 2025|

Australia's 'oldest houses' are part of a Mithaka cultural landscape in Queensland's Channel Country that was entered on the National Heritage List on 5 December 2025. Read more from Douglas Smith, Indigenous Affairs reporter, The Guardian, Saturday 6 December 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/05/australia-national-heritage-list-mithaka-aboriginal-site?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Details of the national heritage listing, updated on [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

Frontier Wars March, Anzac Day, 25 April 2025

jane2025-04-15T09:53:54+10:00April 15th, 2025|

The annual Frontier Wars March will be held in Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2025. The march is held to remind Australians and the world that First Nations defended Country from British colonisation from January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in the convict colony of New [...]

Continued call for recognition of frontier wars, Anzac Day, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 25 April 2024

jane2024-04-27T06:59:41+10:00April 26th, 2024|

Frontier Wars March, Anzac Parade, Reid, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 25 April 2024. Photo: Jane Morrison The marchers were allowed to walk up Anzac Parade but were not permitted to join the annual Anzac Day, RSL veterans' march up Anzac Parade to the new parade ground in [...]

Boe Spearim, Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Guest Speaker for 2024

jane2024-04-17T12:01:17+10:00April 17th, 2024|

Kooma, Murawarii and Gamilaraay Activist and Podcaster, Boe Spearim, is the guest speaker for the 2024 Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Ceremony. It will take place at on Sunday 9 June 2024 at the Myall Creek Hall next to Myall Creek Bridge between Bingara and Delungra, New South Wales. For [...]

Myall Creek Memorial Yarning Event, 7 June 2024

jane2024-04-17T11:34:19+10:00April 17th, 2024|

Armidale Friends of Myall Creek have announced an event in the University of Armidale's Yarning Series on Friday, 7 June 2024. Yarning with Boe Spearim on the Frontier Wars and Black Resistance...then and now will be held at the Oorala Aboriginal Centre, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. [...]

Frontier Wars March, Canberra ACT, Anzac Day, 25 April 2024

jane2024-04-17T10:00:54+10:00April 16th, 2024|

The annual Frontier Wars March will be held again near the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT on Anzac Day, 25 April 2024. If you are on the News page, click the headline for the poster advertising the event and for contact details.