News – Australian Frontier Conflicts

Histories of Australia’s Frontier Wars reveal complexity; more needed

jane2025-07-07T18:22:33+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, [...]

‘A gift to the people of Victoria’: here’s what mob think of Yoorook’s truth findings

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 [...]

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

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

Pilbara Strike tells story of strength and resilience

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 [...]

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 [...]

Port Lincoln’s bloody past explored in new frontier wars exhibition

jane2024-12-09T11:44:58+11:00December 8th, 2024|

Read the story by Emma Pedler and Amelia Costigan on Port Lincoln's violent history on ABC Eyre Peninsula, Saturday 24 August 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-24/port-lincoln-exhibition-frontier-wars-settlers-aboriginal-people/104257966?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=mail&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web A map of conflicts that happened in South Australia, available on this website, can be viewed here: Frontier Conflicts Map – South Australia Other information about [...]

Book reveals those who led massacres in Australia’s north

jane2024-06-18T17:30:49+10:00June 18th, 2024|

Dr Robyn Smith's book, Licence to Kill: massacre men of Australia's north, details massacres of First Peoples that took place in Australia's north from 1824 up to the 1980s. Read more about this publication in Madison Howarth's story on NITV, 18 June 2024: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/new-book-reveals-names-of-those-who-led-massacres-in-countrys-north/jvairh6lp?dlb=[2024/06/18]%20del_nitv_bau&did=DM38272&cid=nitv:edm:acnitv:relation:nitvbrand:na:na Dr Robyn Smith is a [...]

Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Gathering 2024

jane2024-06-11T11:55:49+10:00June 11th, 2024|

One hundred and eighty six years after the massacre of First Peoples at Myall Creek, New South Wales, the annual commemoration ceremony and associated events was held over the June long weekend 2024. Read more in Keira Jenkins's story, National Indigenous Times, 10 June 2024: [...]

Premier prepared to apologise to First Nations Victorians for government injustices

jane2024-06-11T11:30:23+10:00June 11th, 2024|

Premier of the State of Victoria, Jacinta Allan, appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, in Naarm (Melbourne), has announced that she is prepared to apologise to Victoria's First Nations for past injustices. Read more: Declan Brennan National Indigenous Times, 29 April 2024: https://nit.com.au/29-04-2024/11104/victorian-premier-says-she-is-prepared-to-apologise-to-first-nations-victorians-for-injustices-suffered-due-to-government-policies For more about frontier conflicts that happened [...]