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
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
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>
If new research is right, Australia should be poised for a new debate about its bloody colonial genesis and the near eradication of one of the world's oldest peoples Paul Daley, The Guardian, 15 July 2014
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.)
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/
