More information is coming out about the extent of frontier violence in colonial South Australia. An example, Jon Ovan's story 'Bloody history comes to light' appeared in the Port Lincoln Times and in the West Coast Sentinel on 1 August 2018.
Read Paul Daley's story about the true history of Bathurst in The Guardian on 7 August 2018 at: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/07/bathurst-where-the-spirits-prowl-and-whisper-painful-bloody-truths
WFE Liardet (1840), Tullamareena escaping from the first Melbourne gaol in 1838. State Library of Victoria collection. Australian Frontier Conflicts: The University of Melbourne's Dr Katherine Ellinghaus, brings to light an 1839 letter that reveals the frontier violence that happened around colonial Melbourne. Read more at: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/criss-cross-history-hidden-in-a-letter One story [...]
H. Calvert, 'A Deadly Encounter', 1870s. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. (Picture digitally coloured). The University of Melbourne has called for papers by Friday 3 August 2018 for "Colonialism and its Narratives: rethinking the colonial archive in Australia conference" to be held on 10–11 December [...]
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, [...]
