The City of Albany in Western Australia is proposing to update its Alison Hartman Gardens that includes a statue of Mokare, who did much to inform colonists about the culture and beliefs of the local Noongar people. The revamp has been inspired by Yagan Square in the centre of Western [...]
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 [...]
Two researchers at the University of New England, New South Wales, Australia, have released a new magazine detailing frontier wars in the New England area from 1832 to the mid-1840s. Unfortunately, the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association's audio of 30 January 2018 announcing this new publication is no longer [...]
ABC Kimberley's Emily Jane Smith retells the story of Bunuba warrior, Jandamarra, in her story posted on 4 July 2018 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-04/iconic-australian-landscape-home-to-fierce-warrior/9936054 Below is an image of the entrance to Tunnel Creek, Western Australia, that was one of Jandamarra's headquarters in his three-year battle to protect his people and country [...]
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
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, [...]
Myall Creek, New South Wales, Australia. It was on Myall Creek station that stockmen massacred 28 Aboriginal men, women and children on 10 June 1838. The trial of 11 convicts and former convicts for the murders created a sensation because, at the time, Europeans were hardly ever charged with [...]
A massacre of Aboriginal people at Waterloo Bay, Elliston, South Australia has been commemorated with a memorial 170 years on. Read more in Nicola Gage's story dated 19 May 2017 on ABC News online at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-19/waterloo-bay-massacre-commemorated-170-years-later-with-memorial/8539416
A new memorial, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, honours 4,400 African Americans slain in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. A related museum–The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration–will open in Montgomery soon. Read Beth J Harpaz's story about the [...]
"Lest We Forget The Frontier Wars"–banners and placards recall conflicts between colonists and Australia's First Peoples on the colonial frontier, Frontier Wars March, Anzac Parade, Reid, Canberra, 25 April 2018. Photo: Jane Morrison If Anzac Day is about Australian servicemen and women fighting in overseas wars to protect [...]
