First Peoples and supporters protest, 26 January 2017, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia. Photograph: Jane Morrison 'Change It Ourselves campaign asks people to take a different day off for Australia Day': MANY don’t realise public holidays aren’t set in stone — you can ask for a different day off. Now a [...]
'"We didn't expect to hit the main nerve": A.B. Original on music and activism', Emily Nichol, NITV, 3 January 2018 at: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2017/09/01/we-didnt-expect-hit-main-nerve-ab-original-music-and-activism
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(Image: Courtesy, Meredith Walker) Dundalli was an Aboriginal warrior who fought to protect his people and country from European invasion. On the anniversary of Dundalli's public hanging on 5 January 1855, a remembrance service, led by Bishop Jeremy Greaves, will be held at St Mark's Buderim, Queensland at 2.00 pm on [...]
In 2013 SBS Television reported the anniversary of the Coniston massacre (or series of conflicts) in which mass killings of Aboriginal people by police and posses of European civilians in 1928 took place in the Northern Territory. That was only about 94 years ago. Read more about what happened [...]
Ten places in north Queensland, containing the racist word N***** are to be discontinued and renamed. The name changes are to be published in the Queensland Gazette in late September 2017. For more information read Meghna Ball's story on ABC News online updated on 29 August 2017 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-29/ten-racist-names-queensland-wiped-off-maps/8852536
Murdering Creek is on the southern side of Lake Wyeba, near Noosa, Queensland, Australia. Read Kathy Sundstrom's story about the history of the massacre of Aboriginal people that, occurred about 1864, in The Sunshine Daily, 27 July 2017 at: https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/revealed-the-fascinating-history-of-murdering-cree/3205256/ You can read researcher, Ray Gibbons’ 2015 article ‘Deconstructing colonial myths: the [...]
Read Kathy Sundstrom's story in the Sunshine Coast Daily, 25 July 2017 at: https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/debate-over-call-to-change-name-of-murdering-creek/3204215/ Murdering Creek is on the southern side of Lake Wyeba near Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Murdering Creek was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in the 1860s. Historians such as Ray Kerkhove, John Windolf, [...]
Aboriginal Embassy activist, Adrian Charles Davis, 63, has appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on a charge that he refused to leave the disused Lobby restaurant, near the iconic Embassy protest site, when asked to do so by police. The incident took place following the controversial occupation of the former [...]
'Dharawal people remember horrific Appin Massacre', Stan Grant, 'The Point', NITV News, 5 March 2017 Summary: The Dharawal people of south-west Sydney will remember a massacre 200 years ago that still causes debate and pain. It happened at a place called Appin on April 17 1816. Exactly what happened is [...]
