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Cal Flyn: the terrible truths in my family history

The Australian, 23 April 2016 In an extract from her new book, Thicker Than Water, published by HarperCollins on 26 April 2016, Cal Flyn talks about the massacre at Warrigal Creek in July 1843 in which between 80 to 200 Gunai (Kurnai) people were slaughtered. Ms Flyn also lists other [...]

2017-11-06T03:22:56+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Appin Massacre

The Dictionary of Sydney, archived in 2021, is still searchable: https://dictionaryofsydney.org  The Dictionary covers many subjects about the history of Sydney, like the Appin Massacre that happened in 1816. Read more: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/search?query=Appin+Massacre Compiled by Jane Morrison 2012–23 Updated 11 September 2023.

2023-09-11T14:11:16+10:00November 6th, 2017|

Call for national day of remembrance for Australia’s frontier wars

A Ngunnawal elder believes the true [sic] reconciliation cannot be achieved in Australia until the government recognises the existence of thefrontier wars between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Katie Burgess, ABC News online, 7 March 2016

2017-11-06T02:01:48+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Artist says new monument to executed Aborigines is a ‘war memorial’

Carolyn Webb, The Age, 26 November 2015 Melbourne's first memorial to two men executed in 1842 will serve as a war memorial to Aboriginal people's clashes with colonists, according to the artist of the winning design. Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/victoria/artist-says-new-monument-to-executed-aborigines-is-a-war-memorial-20151126-gl8ug9.html

2017-11-06T02:00:32+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Smallpox outbreak of Sydney’s past

Chris Warren, 'Okham's Razor', ABC Radio National, 14 April 2014: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/smallpox-outbreak-of-sydney27s-past/5375394 (The original post from 17 April 2014 is no longer available. The above link replaces that post.)

2022-11-23T09:39:10+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Reconciliation means recognising the Frontier Wars

The Australian War Memorial's refusal to acknowledge the Frontier Wars between Indigenous Australians and white settlers is historically dishonest and is holding back reconciliation. Alan Stephens, ABC TV Opinion, The Drum, 7 July 2014 Update 5 October 2022: The Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Matt Keogh, announced. in a press [...]

2022-10-05T15:17:24+11:00November 6th, 2017|
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