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Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs Exhibition

2017-12-05T06:42:24+11:00November 16th, 2017|

A new multimedia presentation, about Aboriginal massacres in Victoria, has opened as part of the First Peoples permanent exhibition at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural  Centre, Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia. A review of the new installation, Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs, a film and multimedia project, is in Arts Review, 16 November [...]

Plans progressing to establish a memorial to remember Waterloo Creek massacre

2017-12-05T06:51:34+11:00November 16th, 2017|

Plans are underway for a memorial to remember the massacre of Aboriginal people at Waterloo Creek (Slaughterhouse Creek), New South Wales, that took place on 26 January 1838. Read about these plans in Sophie Harris's story in the Moree Champion, 19 June 2017 at: https://www.moreechampion.com.au/story/4737723/taking-steps-to-remember-massacre/ Waterloo Creek: The Australia Day massacre of [...]

Scientific evidence supports oral testimony of Aboriginal massacres in Kimberley

2017-12-05T07:03:51+11:00November 15th, 2017|

‘The local Aboriginal people old stories and painted images of a massacre of their ancestors in the early 20th century, but there was no other evidence that the incident took place. Until now‘. Pam Smith and Keryn Walsh, InDaily, Monday 6 November 2017, Flinders University-sponsored story: https://indaily.com.au/news/national/2017/11/06/scientific-evidence-supports-oral-testimony-aboriginal-massacres-kimberley/

Aboriginal Tent Embassy ‘evict’ Commonwealth from Canberra’s Lobby restaurant

2017-12-05T07:12:54+11:00November 10th, 2017|

Aboriginal people attending a two-day national meeting on the weekend at the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia's national capital, Canberra, have occupied a vacant restaurant near the Embassy in an assertion of their continuing sovereignty over their lands. Sherryn Groch, The Canberra Times, Monday 6 November 2017 at: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/aboriginal-tent-embassy-evict-commonwealth-from-canberras-lobby-restaurant-20171106-gzfk65.html Aboriginal sovereignty [...]

Australia’s frontier massacres and wars

2017-12-05T07:42:15+11:00November 6th, 2017|

ABC Radio National, Thursday 6 July 2017 A new map recording hundreds of sites where Aboriginal people were massacred during Australia's colonisation has renewed debate around how the country's history of war should be memorialised. The Australian War Memorial stands by the position that it's not the appropriate institution to [...]

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