jane2026-02-23T11:31:18+11:00February 23rd, 2026|
During the colonisation of Western Australia's Nullarbor area from the mid-1870s, pastoralists allegedly killed Mirning people. After more than 100 years, the burial of Mirning ancestors' remains, throws light on the violence of dispossession on the Nullarbor. Read more in Emily Smith's article: 'Burial of WA Mirning ancestors after [...]
jane2025-12-10T18:03:46+11:00December 10th, 2025|
The Northern Territory Police have re-opened a more than 90-year old cold case into the mysterious disappearance in November 1934 of Yolngu clan leader Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda (photo left). On 9 November 1934, the High Court overturned Dhakiyarr's conviction for the spearing murder of mounted constable Albert McColl. Following his [...]
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 [...]
jane2025-08-04T12:29:23+10:00August 4th, 2025|
Coded diary entries from an early colonist in the Geraldton area of Western Australia reveal killings of Yamatji Aboriginal people in retaliation for cattle stealing. Read more about these atrocities in Paul Gallagher's story in The Guardian, Morning Mail and related podcasts, 4 August 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/morning-mail-monday-ntwnfb and [...]
jane2025-08-05T12:43:06+10:00August 4th, 2025|
Revelations from Victoria'a Yoorrook Justice Commission throws more light on the atrocities that occurred across Australia during the frontier period. Read more in the story by Nate Woodall and Kate Ashton on ABC News, 2 July 2025: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/yoorrook-justice-inquiry-key-findings-takeaways/105483168 You can access the Yoorrook Justice Commission here: https://www.yoorrook.org.au/history/victorias-history-to-now There is [...]
jane2025-08-04T08:14:34+10:00July 7th, 2025|
An article in The Conversation, 7 July 2025 reviews historian Stephen Gapps' recent publication, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, NewSouth Publishing, 2025: https://theconversation.com/a-defiant-stand-histories-of-australias-frontier-wars-are-revealing-their-true-complexity-but-theres-more-to-be-done-253233 The Australian Frontier Conflicts website has more on publications like Uprising about frontier conflicts and wars, see for example: Bibliography, Books, [...]
jane2025-07-07T17:47:59+10:00July 7th, 2025|
Here's a recent update on Victoria's Yoorook Justice Commission: Findings of genocide, the importance of Treaty and redress, and of the truth-telling process. Read more in Cameron Gooley's story, 'A gift to the people of Victoria': here's what mob think of Yoorook's truth findings, National Indigenous Television (NITV), 3 July [...]
jane2025-05-20T17:02:41+10:00May 20th, 2025|
jane2025-05-07T17:35:58+10:00May 7th, 2025|
Nearly eighty years ago, First People walked off stations in the Pilbara, Western Australia in what has become known as the Pilbara Strike. Like the later more famous 1966 Wave Hill Walkout in the Northern Territory, the Pilbara Strike is a story of resistance, resilience and strength carried on [...]
