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 [...]
Media Release 20 April 2023 "Help Us Bury Our Dead on 25 April 2023" Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia Asserting Australia's First Nations Sovereignty into Governance www.sovereignunion.mobi Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the [...]
A much-needed publication is now available on how First Nations used tactics during Australia's frontier conflicts. Queensland historian Dr Ray Kerkhove has spent many years of research into how First Nations resisted colonisation, revealed in his book How They Fought: Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia's Frontier Wars. Among the [...]
'Aboriginal resistance to British invasion should get its own "substantial" section at the Australian War Memorial,' according to Kim Beazley, the new head of the Memorial's council. He says that a frontier wars gallery should display both sides of the conflict, including the resistance of First Natiuons "guerillas". Read [...]
Guest author, Bruce Cameron, writes on Pearls and Irritations, 18 December 2022: https://johnmenadue.com/will-jandamarra-have-a-place-in-the-new-awm/
