Myall Creek Massacre Memorial 25th Anniversary 6–8 June 2025
Pilbara Strike tells story of strength and resilience
Nearly eighty years ago, First People walked off stations in the Pilbara, Western Australia in what has become known as the Pilbara Strike. Like the later more famous 1966 Wave Hill Walkout in the Northern Territory, the Pilbara Strike is a story of resistance, resilience and strength carried on [...]
Kate Grenville’s questions about our 5000 war memorials
Kate Grenville's new book, Unsettled: A journey through time and place, Black Inc., 2025, deals with Australian history from the point of view of a descendant of people who dispossessed land from First Peoples, who were living around today's Wiseman's Ferry near Sydney and beyond in the colony of [...]
Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 25 April 2025
Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 9am 25/4/25 Media Alert 15 April 2025 Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic calls out for [...]
Frontier Wars March, Anzac Day, 25 April 2025
The annual Frontier Wars March will be held in Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2025. The march is held to remind Australians and the world that First Nations defended Country from British colonisation from January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in the convict colony of New [...]
Port Lincoln’s bloody past explored in new frontier wars exhibition
Read the story by Emma Pedler and Amelia Costigan on Port Lincoln's violent history on ABC Eyre Peninsula, Saturday 24 August 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-24/port-lincoln-exhibition-frontier-wars-settlers-aboriginal-people/104257966?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=mail&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web A map of conflicts that happened in South Australia, available on this website, can be viewed here: Frontier Conflicts Map – South Australia Other information about [...]
Book reveals those who led massacres in Australia’s north
Dr Robyn Smith's book, Licence to Kill: massacre men of Australia's north, details massacres of First Peoples that took place in Australia's north from 1824 up to the 1980s. Read more about this publication in Madison Howarth's story on NITV, 18 June 2024: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/new-book-reveals-names-of-those-who-led-massacres-in-countrys-north/jvairh6lp?dlb=[2024/06/18]%20del_nitv_bau&did=DM38272&cid=nitv:edm:acnitv:relation:nitvbrand:na:na Dr Robyn Smith is a [...]
Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Gathering 2024
One hundred and eighty six years after the massacre of First Peoples at Myall Creek, New South Wales, the annual commemoration ceremony and associated events was held over the June long weekend 2024. Read more in Keira Jenkins's story, National Indigenous Times, 10 June 2024: [...]
Premier prepared to apologise to First Nations Victorians for government injustices
Premier of the State of Victoria, Jacinta Allan, appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, in Naarm (Melbourne), has announced that she is prepared to apologise to Victoria's First Nations for past injustices. Read more: Declan Brennan National Indigenous Times, 29 April 2024: https://nit.com.au/29-04-2024/11104/victorian-premier-says-she-is-prepared-to-apologise-to-first-nations-victorians-for-injustices-suffered-due-to-government-policies For more about frontier conflicts that happened [...]
Red Poppies and Bare Ground––Defending Country Memorial Project
David Stephens, Pearls and Irritations, 25 April 2024, republished from Defending Country, 19 April 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/red-poppies-and-bare-ground-why-do-we-discriminate-among-our-war-dead/ Readers of the above article may be interested in the Memorials and Monuments page on the Australian Frontier Conflicts website.