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 [...]
ABC Radio National, Thursday 6 July 2017 A new map recording hundreds of sites where Aboriginal people were massacred during Australia's colonisation has renewed debate around how the country's history of war should be memorialised. The Australian War Memorial stands by the position that it's not the appropriate institution to [...]
The very moving annual Memorial Ceremony was held at the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial near Bingara, New South Wales on Sunday 11 June 2017. The Memorial, that was opened on 10 June 2000, attracts many visitors and large crowds to the yearly commemoration for the 28 Aboriginal men, women [...]
Friends of Myall Creek, Annual Memorial Gathering: https://myallcreek.org/ 2017 Speaker Mark Tedeschi, speaking on War Crimes and Genocide, 11 June 2017: You can read more about Past Events held at Myall Creek at: https://myallcreek.org/category/past-events/. For more information about Myall Creek ceremonies contact Friends of Myall Creek: https://myallcreek.org/contact-us/
