jane2026-06-21T16:36:45+10:00June 21st, 2026|
One hundred years ago in 1926, a massacre of First Nations people occurred on Ballanggara Country in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Read Erin Parke's illuminating story, dated 21 June 2026, on ABC online of what happened at Forrest River 100 years ago. The [...]
jane2026-05-28T10:05:07+10:00May 28th, 2026|
Travis Lovett with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the conclusion of the National Walk for Truth in Canberra. Image: S. Barnett Check the story from the University of Melbourne's newsroom on 27 May 2026: https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/may/national-walk-for-truth-reaches-parliament-house
jane2026-05-27T18:28:06+10:00May 27th, 2026|
"Truth-telling can't wait, Travis Lovett tells PM after 900km journey", Dechlan Brennan, National Indigenous Times, 27 May 2026 https://nit.com.au/27-05-2026/24510/truth-telling-cant-wait-travis-lovett-tells-pm-after-900km-journey
jane2026-04-03T15:02:29+11:00April 3rd, 2026|
LEST WE FORGET THE FRONTIER WARS AND CONFLICTS The 16th Remembrance March will be held in Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2026. Gather at 9.30am (or earlier) Cnr Anzac Parade and Constitution Avenue, Reid, Australian Capital Territory (or as otherwise advised). ALL WELCOME. [...]
jane2026-03-09T13:18:57+11:00March 9th, 2026|
Christ Sidoti, Henry Reynolds, Francesca Albanese and Lana Tatour, Settler Colonialism: what it can tell you about the Israel/Palestine Conflict, Association for the Promotion of International Law event held in Adelaide, South Australia on 5 March 2026 at the Norwood Concert Hall. The event was represented via Pearls and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
jane2025-05-20T17:02:41+10:00May 20th, 2025|
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 [...]
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 [...]
