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On 25 April 2016, Australians, New Zealanders, friends and former foes, commemorated the 101st landing at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War I as well as the fallen in other international conflicts. This year marks 100 years since the beginning of campaigns on the Western Front in France. While many Aboriginal [...]

The Australian, 23 April 2016 In an extract from her new book, Thicker Than Water, published by HarperCollins on 26 April 2016, Cal Flyn talks about the massacre at Warrigal Creek in July 1843 in which between 80 to 200 Gunai (Kurnai) people were slaughtered. Ms Flyn also lists other [...]

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.)