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 [...]
Erin Parke, ABC Kimberley, Updated 1 October 2017 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-01/forensic-science-study-seeks-truth-of-aboriginal-massacres/9001770
‘The local Aboriginal people old stories and painted images of a massacre of their ancestors in the early 20th century, but there was no other evidence that the incident took place. Until now‘. Pam Smith and Keryn Walsh, InDaily, Monday 6 November 2017, Flinders University-sponsored story: https://indaily.com.au/news/national/2017/11/06/scientific-evidence-supports-oral-testimony-aboriginal-massacres-kimberley/
Nakari Thorpe, NITV, 15 November 2017 at: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2017/11/15/mungo-man-australias-oldest-human-begins-his-final-journey-home
Doug Dingwall, The Canberra Times, 6 November 2017 https://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/indigenous-entrepreneur-dion-devow-named-2018-act-australian-of-the-year-20171106-gzfrjf.html
A new exhibition of Aboriginal massacres that occurred in Victoria has opened as part of the permanent First Peoples exhibition at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum, Victoria, Australia. Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs is a multimedia presentation, as well as a film, of this terrible period in [...]
Aboriginal people attending a two-day national meeting on the weekend at the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia's national capital, Canberra, have occupied a vacant restaurant near the Embassy in an assertion of their continuing sovereignty over their lands. Sherryn Groch, The Canberra Times, Monday 6 November 2017 at: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/aboriginal-tent-embassy-evict-commonwealth-from-canberras-lobby-restaurant-20171106-gzfk65.html Aboriginal sovereignty [...]
