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Will the Australian War Memorial Tell the Story of Colonial Conflicts?

2022-10-06T16:32:59+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Mary Lou Pooley, 27 January 2014 (first published as a blog post on 17 December 2013), Australian War Memorial blog: https://www.awm.gov.au/media/press-releases/will-australian-war-memorial-tell-story-colonial-conflicts Australian Frontier Conflicts (AFC) post updated 6 October 2022. On 29 September 2022 the Minister for Veterans Affairs, Matt Keogh, announced during an Australian War Memorial press conference [...]

Why does the Australian War Memorial ignore the frontier war?

2022-10-05T15:10:35+11:00November 6th, 2017|

The battle between Aboriginal people and settlers is at the heart of nationhood but absent from war dead commemorations Read more: Paul Daley, The Guardian, 12 September 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/australian-war-memorial-ignores-frontier-war Update: 5 October 2022: Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Matt Keogh, announced in a press conference on 29 September 2022 that [...]

Mapping the massacres of Queensland Aboriginal society

2018-05-30T20:48:27+10:00November 6th, 2017|

Massacres of Aboriginal people in colonial Queensland are being mapped. Read more in the story by Nicholas Rothwell in  The Australian, 29 June 2013 at: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/mapping-the-massacres-of-queensland-aboriginal-society/story-fn9n8gph-1226670875988

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