jane2018-04-17T06:56:25+10:00April 17th, 2018|
Sovereignty sign, Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, Australia, 2017. Despite the invasion of their lands, killings, massacres and dispossession since 1788, First Nations have never ceded their sovereignty. Photo Jane Morrison A camp at the Embassy is expected to host 100 or more visitors who will take part in [...]
jane2018-04-15T00:26:09+10:00April 15th, 2018|
Frontier Wars March, Canberra, 25 April 2017 Photo: Jane Morrison The Frontier Wars March, an annual event since 2011, will be held again on Anzac Parade, Reid, Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2018. Invitation to Join the 2018 Frontier Wars March on Anzac Day When: [...]
jane2018-04-13T08:05:31+10:00April 10th, 2018|
Ngaarda Media has uploaded a video, narrated by Ernie Dingo, on YouTube about the Yaburara Flying Foam Massacre that took place 150 years ago, beginning in February 1868. A remembrance ceremony will be held in the Murujuga National Park, Burrup Peninsula, Dampier Archipelago on Western Australia on Sunday 15 April [...]
jane2018-04-10T07:20:32+10:00April 9th, 2018|
A plaque commemorates at least 14 Aboriginal people of the Dharawal Nation killed in a massacre near Appin, New South Wales on 17 April 1816. Photo Jane Morrison, September 2016 It is 202 years since this atrocity, ordered by the New South Wales military, occurred. A memorial service [...]
jane2022-10-06T15:44:11+11:00April 9th, 2018|
On Anzac Day, 25 April 2017, after the National Anzac Day Commemoration Ceremony, First Nations people laid wreathes, commemorating the fallen in the frontier wars, at the Stone of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Photo: Jane Morrison The Victorian government and the Returned Services League (RSL), are [...]
jane2022-11-16T12:31:52+11:00March 7th, 2018|
Questions continue to be raised about statues commemorating the British and the lack of memorials commemorating the First Australians who have inhabited this continent and its islands for up to possibly 70,000 years or more. The role English Captain James Cook played in British exploration in the 1770s and [...]
jane2018-02-24T07:23:37+11:00February 24th, 2018|
A new statue of Noongar leader, Yagan, will be a permanent feature in the middle of Western Australia's capital, Perth. Read more in the story by Rangi Hirini, on NITV News, 22 February 2018: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/02/19/statue-aboriginal-figure-set-permanently-stand-middle-perth You can read more about Yagan and other warriors on our Aboriginal and Torres Strait [...]
jane2018-02-15T06:48:03+11:00February 15th, 2018|
Calls are being made to remove an appalling sign from an Aboriginal massacre site near Mackay in Queensland, Australia. The highly insensitive, thoughtless sign, erected during the recent holiday period, has deeply offended descendants of those involved in the 1860s incident. Many other people believe the sign is disgusting and [...]
jane2024-04-17T10:54:24+10:00February 10th, 2018|
Australia Says No To Adani banner, Stop Adani rally, The Lawns, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia, 5 February 2018. Photo: Jane Morrison Read the latest news from the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Family Council at: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/02/05/traditional-owners-lodge-appeal-after-court-dismisses-injunction-against-adani Message from Adrian Burrgubba and Murrawah Johnson, Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners Family [...]
jane2018-02-09T19:31:31+11:00February 9th, 2018|
The National Capital Authority (NCA) has started the process for the sale of the former The Lobby restaurant, occupied in early November 2017 by activists from the nearby Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra. Story at: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/the-lobby-restaurant-sale-process-started-by-national-capital-authority-20180209-h0vuiq.html Wiradjuri man, Adrian Charles Davis, 63, inspiring Aboriginal people to stand up for their Sovereignty, was arrested [...]
