Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony, New South Wales, 14 April 2024
Poster Kindly Supplied by Friends of Myall Creek
“Legacy of terror”: Descendant of Victorian colonial family wants monuments to her ancestors removed
Appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission truth-telling inquiry, Suzannah Henty a sixth-generation Henty descendant, called for monuments to her family to be removed. Henty believes that the spray-painting of Henty monuments is evidence of the distress they cause to First Peoples. The inquiry opened in Victoria on Monday 25 [...]
200-Year Old Diary Reveals Unknown Tasmanian Massacre
Rachel Edwards, ABC Radio Hobart, 'Rare soldier's diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years,' Monday 28 December 2020. A disentegrating soldier's diary held in the National Library of Ireland (NAI) has led to the startling discovery of an undocumented massacre of First Peoples in Tasmania [...]
After the (failed) referendum dust settles
Peter Smith, 'After the (failed) referendum dust settles,' Pearls and Irritations, 19 March 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/after-the-failed-referendum-dust-settles/
Killing for Country by David Marr, Australia Institute Zoom Event, 11.00am Wednesday 24 January 2024
https://australiainstitute.org.au/event/killing-for-country-by-david-marr/
Bitter Truths: colonisation was not so good for some
https://johnmenadue.com/bitter-truths-colonisation-was-not-so-good-for-some/
Dora Dora massacre evidence accidentally uncovered
Former TV host Sheridan Jobbins has accidentally uncovered evidence of a massacre on Dora Dora Station in the Upper Murray, Victoria in the 1830s. Read more in Sarah Krieg's story, ABC Goulburn/Murray, Thursday 5 October 2023: 'Sheridan Jobbins was looking for a piece of land. What she found was [...]
Killing for Country: Another plank in truth-telling
https://johnmenadue.com/killing-for-country-another-plank-in-truth-telling/
Crowther statue removal appealed
Although the Development Application for the removal of the William Crowther statue in Hobart's Franklin Square was passed on 23 August 2023, the Hobart City Council's decision has been appealed. Read more in the Council's Crowther Reinterpreted Project Update announced on Wednesday 13 September 2023: https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Creative-Hobart/Creative-Hobart-projects/Crowther-Reinterpreted [...]