jane2022-10-02T08:25:52+11:00October 2nd, 2022|
One hundred and. ninety four years ago, on 24 June 1827, between 30 and 120 Pallittore people were killed in a colonists' reprisal at Tasmania's Liffey Falls. Read more in Jessica Willard's story in The Examiner of 24 June 2021: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7312276/no-signs-no-crosses-no-memorials-liffey-falls-dark-history-remembered/
jane2022-10-01T13:43:05+10:00October 1st, 2022|
After many years of demands for the recognition of Australia's frontier conflicts, the Australian War Memorial (AWM) has acquiesced. Rachel Perkins's three-part documentary, The Australian Wars, currently airing on SBS/NITV, has helped tip the balance. The series explores some of the main incidents that occurred during the [...]
jane2022-10-01T12:05:41+10:00October 1st, 2022|
Truganini has often been mis-represented as 'the last palawa Aboriginal', which is completely false. Dan Butler tells the truth about palawa woman Truganini and her life in his article, 'The power of Truganini: reclaiming a hero's story', NITV News, 28 September 2022: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/the-power-of-truganini-reclaiming-a-heros-story/qcbi9ugzn Portrait of Truganini [picture]/ [C.A. [...]
jane2022-08-29T18:14:54+10:00August 29th, 2022|
NITV Media Release 25 August 2022. Read more here: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2022/08/25/filmmaker-rachel-perkins-reveals-truth-australian-wars-battles-fought-home-soil
jane2022-08-16T10:04:40+10:00August 16th, 2022|
A small step to reconciliation’: Hobart council to remove statue of William Crowther who stole Aboriginal skull from morgue Former Tasmanian premier, William Crowther, mutilated the body of William Lanne in 1869 and sent his skull to the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Statue of former Tasmanian [...]
jane2022-08-07T09:29:11+10:00August 7th, 2022|
David Stephens, Editor, Honest History, writing for Pearls and Irritations, 7 August 2022: https://johnmenadue.com/australian-war-memorial-needs-to-own-australian-frontier-wars/
jane2022-07-10T19:59:05+10:00July 10th, 2022|
Matt Neal of ABC Southwest, Victoria writes about the push to have Heritage Victoria recognise a 19th-century monument and grave honouring warrior Wombeetch Puyuun and the Camperdown district's First People. Memorial to Wombeetch Puyuun and First Nations People of the Camperdown district, Victoria, Australia 'The monument is unlike any other [...]
jane2022-07-08T15:29:46+10:00July 8th, 2022|
Yet another call for the commemoration of Australia's frontier wars at the Australian War Memorial has been made–this time by Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War. Listen to ABC Radio National's Hamish McDonald interview Dr Wareham, on 7 July 2022, about why the [...]
jane2022-06-05T13:45:28+10:00June 5th, 2022|
Badtjala artist and academic, Fiona Foley, is calling for the name of Griffith University to be changed. The university, located in Queensland was named after Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Australia's first high court justice and an author of the Australian Constitution. Sir Samuel Griffith was an attorney-general or Queensland [...]
jane2024-02-01T14:31:36+11:00May 1st, 2022|
Historian and author James Wilson-Miller will be the Commemoration Speaker at the Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony on 12 June 2022. James Wilson-Miller is from the Gringai clan of the Hunter Valley Wonnarua nation. He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. For 16 years Mr Wilson-Miller was Curator [...]
