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The Dictionary of Sydney, archived in 2021, is still searchable: https://dictionaryofsydney.org  The Dictionary covers many subjects about the history of Sydney, like the Appin Massacre that happened in 1816. Read more: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/search?query=Appin+Massacre Compiled by Jane Morrison 2012–23 Updated 11 September 2023.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 March 2016 Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-to-halt-sydney-light-rail-after-massive-indigenous-artefact-find-20160329-gnsxr4.html#ixzz44Y3164z7/a>

The Conversation, 7 March 2016 Read more: https://theconversation.com/breaking-the-silence-australia-must-acknowledge-a-violent-past-51308>

A Ngunnawal elder believes the true [sic] reconciliation cannot be achieved in Australia until the government recognises the existence of thefrontier wars between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Katie Burgess, ABC News online, 7 March 2016

Carolyn Webb, The Age, 26 November 2015 Melbourne's first memorial to two men executed in 1842 will serve as a war memorial to Aboriginal people's clashes with colonists, according to the artist of the winning design. Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/victoria/artist-says-new-monument-to-executed-aborigines-is-a-war-memorial-20151126-gl8ug9.html

Andrew Stephens, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December 2014 Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artist-ben-quilty-confronts-colonial-denial-with-aboriginal-massacre-site-art-works-20141206-1217ca.html/a>

If new research is right, Australia should be poised for a new debate about its bloody colonial genesis and the near eradication of one of the world's oldest peoples Paul Daley, The Guardian, 15 July 2014

Chris Warren, 'Okham's Razor', ABC Radio National, 14 April 2014: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/smallpox-outbreak-of-sydney27s-past/5375394 (The original post from 17 April 2014 is no longer available. The above link replaces that post.)

The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation. Alan Stephens, ABC TV Opinion, The Drum, 7 July 2014 Update 5 October 2022: The Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Matt Keogh, announced. in a press [...]

Michael Green, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2014 at https://www.smh.com.au/national/once-were-warriors-20140204-31zmu.html