Although the Development Application for the removal of the William Crowther statue in Hobart's Franklin Square was passed on 23 August 2023, the Hobart City Council's decision has been appealed. Read more in the Council's Crowther Reinterpreted Project Update announced on Wednesday 13 September 2023: https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Creative-Hobart/Creative-Hobart-projects/Crowther-Reinterpreted [...]
First Nation campaigns over many years have led to a Hobart City Council planning committee vote in favour of the removal of statue of William Crowther, Tasmanian Premier from 1878–1879. Crowther, who was a surgeon as well as a politician, cut off and stole the skull of William Lane, replacing [...]
Blackman's Point, on the Lands of the Birpai people, near Port Macquarie, New South Wales was recognised as an important massacre site and as an Aboriginal Place earlier this year. Read more: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/blackmans-point-massacre-site-declared-an-aboriginal-place-in-new-south-wales See also Memorials and Monuments on this website for a growing list of memorials and monuments [...]
Military historian, Professor Peter Stanley of the University of New South Wales, Canberra writes in Pearls and Irritations, 19 July 2023 about why the Australian War Memorial does not wish to include the part the Native Mounted Police played in Australia's frontier conflict: https://johnmenadue.com/the-native-mounted-police-extermination-on-the-australian-frontier/ A very useful book about [...]
A controversial statue of a controversial colonial figure, William Crowther, is to be removed from public display. Temporary signage next to the state's plinth will be erected to explain the reasons why the astatine has been taken down. Read Adam Holmes' story about the removal of the statue and [...]
https://johnmenadue.com/greg-melick-the-awm-and-frontier-wars/ Posted by Noel Turnbull on Pearls and Irritations, 22 June 2023
The annual commemoration of the Myall Creek Massacre in 1838 will be held at Bingara, New South Wales from 9–11 June 2023. For more details see the Friends of Myall Creek website: http://myallcreek.org/ The program will include: Friday 9 June 2023 Saturday 10 June 2023 Exhibition Opening, Ceramic Break, [...]
In the mid-1800s the Nauo people of what is known today in English as the Eyre Peninsula, were almost wiped out by the arrival of colonists. Today Nauo survivors are able to tell their story. ABC Eyre Peninsula's Jodie Hamilton reports on the Nauo people's great win. Read more [...]
John Menadue's online Public Policy Journal, Pearls and Irritations, brings the caring and concerned among us more news about Dr Ray Kerhove's new book, How They Fought, Boolarong Press, 2023 about how First Peoples fought to resist invasion and colonisation of Country from 1788: Read Dr Kerhove's 1 May [...]
As Aaron Smith writes in The Guardian, unofficial recognition has been growing of those killed on Australian soil in colonial frontier conflicts, but official commemoration is still being debated. Read more in Aaron Smith's story on 24 April 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/24/calls-grow-for-australias-frontier-wars-to-be-remembered-on-anzac-day Chair of the Council of the Australian War Memorial [...]
