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Aboriginal scars from frontier wars, 18 March 2020

A long-running archaeology project, funded by the Australian Research Council, has been looking into what happened to Aboriginal men who were recruited to the Queensland Native Mounted Police, their involvement in 'the frontier wars' and the resultant trauma that impacted their lives. Read more about this story in EurekaAlert! [...]

2025-07-03T13:57:02+10:00March 20th, 2020|

Killings hidden in WA colonist’s coded diaries

Coded diary entries from an early colonist in the Geraldton area of Western Australia reveal killings of Yamatji Aboriginal people in retaliation for cattle stealing.  Read more about these atrocities in Paul Gallagher's story in The Guardian, Morning Mail and related podcasts, 4 August 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/morning-mail-monday-ntwnfb and [...]

2025-08-04T12:29:23+10:00August 4th, 2025|

Yoorrook Justice Commission finds genocide happened in Victoria

Revelations from Victoria'a Yoorrook Justice Commission throws more light on the atrocities that occurred across Australia during the frontier period. Read more in the story by Nate Woodall and Kate Ashton on ABC News, 2 July 2025: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/yoorrook-justice-inquiry-key-findings-takeaways/105483168 You can access the Yoorrook Justice Commission here: https://www.yoorrook.org.au/history/victorias-history-to-now There is [...]

2025-08-04T11:36:43+10:00August 4th, 2025|

Histories of Australia’s Frontier Wars reveal complexity; more needed

An article in The Conversation, 7 July 2025 reviews historian Stephen Gapps' recent publication, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, NewSouth Publishing, 2025: https://theconversation.com/a-defiant-stand-histories-of-australias-frontier-wars-are-revealing-their-true-complexity-but-theres-more-to-be-done-253233 The Australian Frontier Conflicts website has more on publications like Uprising about frontier conflicts and wars, see for example: Bibliography, Books, [...]

2025-08-04T08:14:34+10:00July 7th, 2025|

Pilbara Strike tells story of strength and resilience

Nearly eighty years ago, First People walked off stations in the Pilbara, Western Australia in what has become known as the Pilbara Strike. Like the later more famous 1966 Wave Hill Walkout in the Northern Territory, the Pilbara Strike is a story of resistance, resilience and strength carried on [...]

2025-05-07T17:35:58+10:00May 7th, 2025|

Kate Grenville’s questions about our 5000 war memorials

Kate Grenville's new book, Unsettled: A journey through time and place, Black Inc., 2025, deals with Australian history from the point of view of a descendant of people who dispossessed land from First Peoples, who were living around today's Wiseman's Ferry near Sydney and beyond in the colony of [...]

2025-05-20T17:16:27+10:00May 7th, 2025|

Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 25 April 2025

Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 9am 25/4/25 Media Alert 15 April 2025 Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic calls out for [...]

2025-04-15T19:04:28+10:00April 15th, 2025|

Frontier Wars March, Anzac Day, 25 April 2025

The annual Frontier Wars March will be held in Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2025. The march is held to remind Australians and the world that First Nations defended Country from British colonisation from January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in the convict colony of New [...]

2025-04-15T09:53:54+10:00April 15th, 2025|

Port Lincoln’s bloody past explored in new frontier wars exhibition

Read the story by Emma Pedler and Amelia Costigan on Port Lincoln's violent history on ABC Eyre Peninsula, Saturday 24 August 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-24/port-lincoln-exhibition-frontier-wars-settlers-aboriginal-people/104257966?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=mail&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web A map of conflicts that happened in South Australia, available on this website, can be viewed here: Frontier Conflicts Map – South Australia Other information about [...]

2024-12-09T11:44:58+11:00December 8th, 2024|
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