jane2022-04-24T10:53:41+10:00April 24th, 2022|
Control over a sacred site where 300 First Nations people were massacred in the late 1800s has been handed back to the Darumbal people. The Queensland Government's latest move gives trusteeship to the Gawula Aboriginal Land Trust of a 13.5-hectare reserve at the foot of Gai-i (formerly Mt Wheeler) [...]
jane2022-04-24T08:45:25+10:00April 18th, 2022|
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/
jane2022-10-05T13:59:56+11:00March 16th, 2022|
Lorena Allam writes in The Guardian, on 16 March 2022, about a 1981 poisoning of First Nations people at Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Two Aboriginal people died and 14 were admitted to hospital after unwittingly drinking from a poisoned bottle of sherry that was deliberately left near the town's John [...]
jane2022-03-16T15:41:05+11:00March 16th, 2022|
The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed report in The Guardian on 16 March 2022 about the final update of a mapping project that documents massacres of Aboriginal people. The University of Newcastle's latest project update adds 113 more sites where [...]
jane2022-03-07T14:13:15+11:00March 7th, 2022|
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on 7 March 1772, a First Nations man was killed in Tasmania'a south-east during a violent encounter between Europeans and Aboriginal people. Marion Bay, named after the French explorer, Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, the first European to encounter Tasmanian Aboriginal people when he landed at [...]
jane2024-02-01T14:09:45+11:00February 10th, 2022|
Dan Bourchier, ABC News, Canberra, traces the 50 years of history and continuing relevance of Canberra's Aboriginal Embassy. New item not currently (1 February 2024) available on ABCiView. Similar news items appeared in other news outlets at the time. "The Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 50: the history of an [...]
jane2022-02-02T16:24:50+11:00February 2nd, 2022|
50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy–the elephant in the room Ghillar Michael Anderson, the last surviving member of the "Founding Four", who set up the Aboriginal Embassy under a beach umbrella opposite Old Parliament House, Canberra on 26 January 2022, reveals his version of the divide and conquer tactics [...]
jane2022-02-02T15:29:13+11:00February 2nd, 2022|
"Australia Day" continues to be devisive–some for it, some against Protest March, Canberra ACT, Australia, 26 January 2022. Photo: Jane Morrison As elsewhere in Australia, the pain of 26 January was felt strongly in Tasmania as images of departed ancestors such as Mannarlargenna, William Lanne, and Fanny [...]
jane2022-01-26T20:31:36+11:00January 26th, 2022|
Aboriginal Embassy, 50th Anniversary March, Canberra 26 January 2022. Photo: Jane Morrison. This march began from the National Film and Sound Archive, in the precinct of the Australian National University, where the July 1972 protest marches, supporting Aboriginal land rights, sovereignty and the Aboriginal Embassy, started. The above photograph was taken [...]
jane2022-10-02T08:56:28+11:00January 25th, 2022|
Sally Pryor of The Canberra Times interviews Ghillar Michael Anderson about his memories of setting up the Aboriginal Embassy on the lawns opposite Old Parliament House, Canberra on 26 January 1972: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7573856/what-we-need-is-respect-recent-protester-actions-at-odds-with-tent-embassy/ (Story The Canberra Times 8 January 2022) Mr Anderson won't be deterred by recent efforts to derail the [...]
