See Tim Morgan’s story about Mannalargenna on ABC News online, 4 December 2017 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-04/aboriginal-warrior-mannalargenna-rememberred/9222404 […]
Dozens of people have contacted the Australian Electoral Commission seeking to change the name of the Federal electorate of McMillan. The electorate, in eastern Victoria, is named after Angus McMillan, dubbed ‘the Butcher of Gippsland’ for his role in the massacre of Aboriginal people in the 1800s. The ABC Gippsland [...]
Aboriginal people have never ceded their Sovereignty, but have experienced genocide and continue to the suffer the effects of dispossession. While the gap is closing between the wider Victorian society and Aboriginal communities in high school completion, kindergarten participation and decreasing infant mortality, Aboriginal people continue to suffer the effects [...]
Thorpe declares that she will 'fight for' and never sell out' those who feel they are not being counted. Read more in Calla Wahlquist's story in The Guardian, 29 November 2017 at: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/29/lidia-thorpe-finds-her-voice-the-first-indigenous-woman-to-do-so-in-victorian-parliament
Lidia Thorpe speaking on the second day of a two-day National Gathering, held at the Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, Australia on 4 and 5 November 2017 - Photo by Jane Morrison Activist Lidia Thorpe is the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Victorian Parliament and the Greens [...]
Kulatangku angakanyini manta munu Tjukurpa [Country and Culture will be protected by spears] is a work by 19 artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands in South Australia. The huge painting is permanently on display at the Australian War Memorial. Read more about the opening ceremony on 16 November 2017 [...]
In acknowledgement of the ‘increasing debate’ about Australia Day (26 January) and its meaning for First Peoples, ABC radio station triple j announced on 27 November 2017 that the countdown for the best 100 songs will not be held on 26 January, but on 27 January 2018. Read ABC music [...]
Traditional custodians of Lake Mungo will host today, a major ceremony to celebrate the return of the 40,000 year-old remains of Mungo Man to his Country. In 1974, more than 40 years ago, scientists found the fossilised male skeleton in Mungo National Park, New South Wales. The ancient Aboriginal man's [...]
A new multimedia presentation, about Aboriginal massacres in Victoria, has opened as part of the First Peoples permanent exhibition at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia. A review of the new installation, Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs, a film and multimedia project, is in Arts Review, 16 November [...]
Plans are underway for a memorial to remember the massacre of Aboriginal people at Waterloo Creek (Slaughterhouse Creek), New South Wales, that took place on 26 January 1838. Read about these plans in Sophie Harris's story in the Moree Champion, 19 June 2017 at: https://www.moreechampion.com.au/story/4737723/taking-steps-to-remember-massacre/ Waterloo Creek: The Australia Day massacre of [...]
