A Frontier Wars wing at the Australian War Memorial would help improve the perceptions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have of themselves, would fundamentally change the distorted perception many Australians have of our history, and would potentially change the relationship between First Peoples and other Australians. An opinion [...]
Lucy McNally, ABC News online, 23 August 2016 In 1770, Cooman, a Gweagal man, was shot in the leg in an encounter with Captain James Cook and his crew on the shores of Botany Bay, Sydney. During the incident Cooman dropped his shield. Rodney Kelly, a descendant of Cooman, is [...]
The Conversation, Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland, updated 20 August 2016 Many Australians know about the Wave Hill Walk-off 50 years ago on 23 August 1966 that led to the Aboriginal Land Rights movement. What is little known is that the walk-off followed eighty years of massacres, killings and ill [...]
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
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>
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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>
The Conversation, 7 March 2016 Read more: https://theconversation.com/breaking-the-silence-australia-must-acknowledge-a-violent-past-51308>
