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

jane2017-12-05T07:12:54+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

jane2017-12-05T07:42:15+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 [...]

Myall Creek massacre: Hundreds gathered at Myall Creek, Bingara for 179th memorial

jane2017-12-06T00:28:17+11:00November 6th, 2017|

The very moving annual Memorial Ceremony was held at the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial near Bingara, New South Wales on Sunday 11 June 2017. The Memorial, that was opened on 10 June 2000, attracts many visitors and large crowds to the yearly commemoration for the 28 Aboriginal men, women [...]

Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony, Bingara, New South Wales, Sunday, 11 June 2017

jane2024-02-01T13:32:19+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Friends of Myall Creek, Annual Memorial Gathering: https://myallcreek.org/ 2017 Speaker Mark Tedeschi, speaking on War Crimes and Genocide, 11 June 2017: You can read more about Past Events held at Myall Creek at: https://myallcreek.org/category/past-events/. For more information about Myall Creek ceremonies contact Friends of Myall Creek: https://myallcreek.org/contact-us/

On this day: Pemulwuy is killed

jane2017-12-06T01:20:42+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Angela Heathcote, Australian Geographic, 1 June 2017 https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/on-this-day/2017/06/on-this-day-pemulwuy-is-killed

Sydney Cove shipwreck an epic tale of adventure and survival in 1797

jane2017-12-06T02:14:53+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Mark McKenna for ‘Earshot’, ABC Radio National, 30 May 2017 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-30/survival-story-sydney-coves-shipwrecked-sailors/8536714

‘Remarkable’ Indigenous diggers take the lead on Anzac Day at last

jane2017-12-06T02:25:34+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and women veterans march together for the first time in the Anzac Day march, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 25 April 2017. Photo: Jane Morrison NITV 25 April 2017 https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2017/04/25/remarkable-indigenous-diggers-take-lead-anzac-day-last

Always Independent: An Interview with Murrawarri Republic Chair Fred Hooper

jane2017-12-06T02:29:30+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Explains why a number of Aboriginal nations have declared their continuing independence as nations who have lived on the Australian continent for thousands of years and have never ceded their sovereignty to British colonisers who engaged in conflicts with, and waged war against, the First Peoples. Interview by Paul Gregoire, [...]

Smallpox: 1789 Biological warfare against First Nations

jane2017-12-06T02:37:39+11:00November 6th, 2017|

It is possible that smallpox was deliberately used as a biological ‘weapon’ against First Peoples living in the Sydney region in the early days of colonial New South Wales. Talk by Chris Warren recorded at the Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra on 17 April 2017: https://www.sovereignunion.mobi/content/smallpox-1789-biological-warfare-against-first-nations

Frontier Wars Commemoration and March, Anzac Day, Canberra, 25 April 2017

jane2017-12-06T02:39:36+11:00November 6th, 2017|

The annual Frontier Wars Commemoration and March will take place in Canberra on 25 April 2017. To join the peaceful, respectful march to commemorate those who gave their lives in Australia's colonial frontier conflicts, assemble at the bottom of Anzac Parade from 9.00 am. For those interested in the Aboriginal [...]