Myall Creek Smoking Ceremony
The crowd participates in a smoking ceremony at Myall Creek Memorial site, 16 June 2016 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-16/myall-creek-smoking-ceremony/7516318
REVEALED: Who is Aboriginal warrior Multuggerah
Andrew Backhouse, The Chronicle, Toowoomba, Queensland, 9 May 2016 Read more at: https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/aboriginal-warrior-battled-elite-british-soldiers/3020583/a>
Anzac Day 2016–Remembering the Frontier Wars, Conflicts and Massacres
On 25 April 2016, Australians, New Zealanders, friends and former foes, commemorated the 101st landing at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War I as well as the fallen in other international conflicts. This year marks 100 years since the beginning of campaigns on the Western Front in France. While many Aboriginal [...]
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 [...]
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.
Call to halt Sydney light rail after massive Indigenous artefact find
The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 March 2016 Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/nsw/call-to-halt-sydney-light-rail-after-massive-indigenous-artefact-find-20160329-gnsxr4.html#ixzz44Y3164z7/a>
Breaking the silence: Australia must acknowledge a violent past
The Conversation, 7 March 2016 Read more: https://theconversation.com/breaking-the-silence-australia-must-acknowledge-a-violent-past-51308>
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
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
Artist Ben Quilty confronts colonial denial with Aboriginal massacre site artworks
Andrew Stephens, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 December 2014 Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artist-ben-quilty-confronts-colonial-denial-with-aboriginal-massacre-site-art-works-20141206-1217ca.html/a>