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 [...]
Michael Green, The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2014 at https://www.smh.com.au/national/once-were-warriors-20140204-31zmu.html
Mary Lou Pooley, 27 January 2014 (first published as a blog post on 17 December 2013), Australian War Memorial blog: https://www.awm.gov.au/media/press-releases/will-australian-war-memorial-tell-story-colonial-conflicts Australian Frontier Conflicts (AFC) post updated 6 October 2022. On 29 September 2022 the Minister for Veterans Affairs, Matt Keogh, announced during an Australian War Memorial press conference [...]
The battle between Aboriginal people and settlers is at the heart of nationhood but absent from war dead commemorations Read more: Paul Daley, The Guardian, 12 September 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/australian-war-memorial-ignores-frontier-war Update: 5 October 2022: Minister for Veterans' Affairs, Matt Keogh, announced in a press conference on 29 September 2022 that [...]
Michael Piggott, 'The Battle for Australia: Henry Reynolds' "Forgotten War", Honest History Newsletter No. 5, September 2013, at https://www.honesthistory.net.au/wp/piggott-michael-forgotten-war-review/
Massacres of Aboriginal people in colonial Queensland are being mapped. Read more in the story by Nicholas Rothwell in The Australian, 29 June 2013 at: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/mapping-the-massacres-of-queensland-aboriginal-society/story-fn9n8gph-1226670875988
