jane2018-01-23T00:34:00+11:00January 19th, 2018|
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 [...]
jane2025-07-03T13:56:56+10:00January 12th, 2018|
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 [...]
jane2018-01-08T00:53:45+11:00January 8th, 2018|
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 [...]
jane2018-01-07T23:40:12+11:00January 7th, 2018|
'"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
jane2022-10-06T15:04:54+11:00December 6th, 2017|
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 [...]
jane2018-05-30T20:52:25+10:00December 6th, 2017|
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
jane2017-12-06T00:29:39+11:00December 6th, 2017|
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 [...]
jane2017-12-06T00:26:23+11:00December 5th, 2017|
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, [...]
jane2017-12-05T23:41:54+11:00December 5th, 2017|
Aboriginal Embassy activist, Adrian Charles Davis, 63, has appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on a charge that he refused to leave the disused Lobby restaurant, near the iconic Embassy protest site, when asked to do so by police. The incident took place following the controversial occupation of the former [...]
jane2017-12-06T00:23:31+11:00December 5th, 2017|
'Dharawal people remember horrific Appin Massacre', Stan Grant, 'The Point', NITV News, 5 March 2017 Summary: The Dharawal people of south-west Sydney will remember a massacre 200 years ago that still causes debate and pain. It happened at a place called Appin on April 17 1816. Exactly what happened is [...]
