Turnbull distances himself from Abbott over First Fleet remarks
SBS News, Australia 22 January 2018. Read more at: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/turnbull-distances-himself-from-abbott-over-first-fleet-remarks?cid=trending
‘Sweet Country’ preview held in Alice Springs
Sweet Country, award-winning director Warwick Thornton's new feature film, has previewed to proud and excited audiences in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Highlighting Australia's Frontier Wars, so far not widely acknowledged, accepted or even known about by 'mainstream Australia', the film depicts early 20th–century colonists' deep fear of Aboriginal resistance, their [...]
Victoria’s first female Aboriginal MP receives death threats over Australia Day comments
Greens MP, Lidia Thorpe, Victoria's first Aboriginal woman to become an MP has received threats of death and gang rape for calling for flags to be flown at half mast on 26 January. Ms Thorpe says the threats have made her more determined to speak out about Australia Day and [...]
‘Australia Day’, Australian history, and airbrushing the Past
Invasion Day, Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, 26 January 2017. Photo: Jane Morrison Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sovereignty has never been ceded over the Australian continent and its islands. Aboriginal people continue to call for a treaty or treaties with the dominant power, which, on 26 January 2018 will celebrate [...]
Why Australia Day date should be changed
First Peoples and supporters protest, 26 January 2017, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia. Photograph: Jane Morrison 'Change It Ourselves campaign asks people to take a different day off for Australia Day': MANY don’t realise public holidays aren’t set in stone — you can ask for a different day off. Now a [...]
A.B. Original vehicle for driving change across Australia
'"We didn't expect to hit the main nerve": A.B. Original on music and activism', Emily Nichol, NITV, 3 January 2018 at: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2017/09/01/we-didnt-expect-hit-main-nerve-ab-original-music-and-activism
Remembering the Coniston Massacre
In 2013 SBS Television reported the anniversary of the Coniston massacre (or series of conflicts) in which mass killings of Aboriginal people by police and posses of European civilians in 1928 took place in the Northern Territory. That was only about 94 years ago. Read more about what happened [...]
Racist place names in Queensland’s north to be wiped off maps
Ten places in north Queensland, containing the racist word N***** are to be discontinued and renamed. The name changes are to be published in the Queensland Gazette in late September 2017. For more information read Meghna Ball's story on ABC News online updated on 29 August 2017 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-29/ten-racist-names-queensland-wiped-off-maps/8852536
REVEALED: The fascinating history of Murdering Creek
Murdering Creek is on the southern side of Lake Wyeba, near Noosa, Queensland, Australia. Read Kathy Sundstrom's story about the history of the massacre of Aboriginal people that, occurred about 1864, in The Sunshine Daily, 27 July 2017 at: https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/revealed-the-fascinating-history-of-murdering-cree/3205256/ You can read researcher, Ray Gibbons’ 2015 article ‘Deconstructing colonial myths: the [...]
Debate rages after calls to rename Murdering Creek Road
Read Kathy Sundstrom's story in the Sunshine Coast Daily, 25 July 2017 at: https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/debate-over-call-to-change-name-of-murdering-creek/3204215/ Murdering Creek is on the southern side of Lake Wyeba near Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Murdering Creek was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in the 1860s. Historians such as Ray Kerkhove, John Windolf, [...]