Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony 2026
Date: Sunday 19 April, 2026 Time: 11:00am–3.30pm Venue: Cataract Dam Picnic Ground, Appin Road, Appin, New South Wales This year marks 210 years since the Appin Massacre of 17 April 1816, a significant and painful moment in the history of the Dharawal people. The annual memorial ceremony will be [...]
Massacre near Geraldton WA: Traditional owners call for colonist’s diaries to be released in full
Read more about the Logue diaries and a massacre coverup in the story by Sara Collard, Lena Allam and Ella Archibald-Binge, The Guardian online, 5 August 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/05/the-descendants-traditional-owners-call-for-diaries-of-wa-settler-who-killed-aboriginal-people-to-be-released-in-full-ntwnfb See also the previous post on this website dated 4 August 2025.
Greg Melick, the AWM and Frontier Wars
https://johnmenadue.com/greg-melick-the-awm-and-frontier-wars/ Posted by Noel Turnbull on Pearls and Irritations, 22 June 2023
The Australian Wars: Evidence from Queensland
In a Special SBS Documentary, journalist Kerry O'Brien discussed frontier violence from a Queensland perspective, drawing on records found in the Queensland State Archives. Watch the program broadcast on 6 October 2022 here. On YouTube since 11 September 2023: The Australian Wars: Evidence from Queensland, 2022: Special, Documentary, Blackfella [...]
Reason and Reckoning: Conversations and Provocations Symposium
Reason and Reckoning: Conversations and Provocations Symposium on the legacy of colonial figures like Sir Samuel Griffith, and his role in the killing of First Nations people in late 19th-century Queensland. Names of 'founding fathers' like Griffith's are still widespread throughout the Australian landscape and Australian institutions. 'This symposium, [...]
Friends of Myall Creek competition entries close 31 May 2021
Thoughts 'N' Dreams Competition 2021 Theme Friends of Myall Creek Memorial student art, writing and song competition entries close Monday 31st May 2021. Enter now. More details at: https://myallcreek.org/2021/04/05/thoughts-n-dreams-competition/
New magazine details violent history between colonists and Anaiwan speakers
University of New England researchers have produced a new magazine, Resisting New England, detailing frontier conflicts that occurred between colonists and Anaiwan speakers between 1832 and the mid-1840s. The magazine is aimed primarily at Anaiwan people from the New England area of New South Wales, Australia. Read more about the [...]
‘Blatant war and genocide’: memories of Native Police haunt Indigenous Queensland
Joshua Robertson writes in The Guardian on 3 September 2016 about the role of the Native Police in Queensland's frontier genocide. Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/03/blatant-war-and-genocide-memories-of-native-police-haunt-indigenous-queensland
Myall Creek Memorial a symbol of reconciliation as descendants of victims and perpetrators gather
Today, 10 June 2018, is the 180th anniversary of the 1838 brutal massacre of Aboriginal people by stockmen on Myall Creek station near Bingara, New South Wales, Australia. Descendants of victims and perpetrators are gathering at the memorial site this morning in a commemorative ceremony of reconciliation. Commemoration ceremony, [...]