Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony, New South Wales, 14 April 2024
Poster Kindly Supplied by Friends of Myall Creek
“Legacy of terror”: Descendant of Victorian colonial family wants monuments to her ancestors removed
Appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission truth-telling inquiry, Suzannah Henty a sixth-generation Henty descendant, called for monuments to her family to be removed. Henty believes that the spray-painting of Henty monuments is evidence of the distress they cause to First Peoples. The inquiry opened in Victoria on Monday 25 [...]
After the (failed) referendum dust settles
Peter Smith, 'After the (failed) referendum dust settles,' Pearls and Irritations, 19 March 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/after-the-failed-referendum-dust-settles/
Bitter Truths: colonisation was not so good for some
https://johnmenadue.com/bitter-truths-colonisation-was-not-so-good-for-some/
Colonial-era William Crowther statue to be removed from Hobart’s Franklin Square, in an Australian first
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 [...]
Blackmans Point Massacre Site, near Port Macquarie, New South Wales declared an Aboriginal Place earlier this year
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 [...]
Nauo people back from near annihilation with hopes native title will deliver bright future
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 [...]
How (hard) They Fought: sophistication of First Nations’ resistance
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 [...]
“Help Us Bury Our Dead” on 25 April 2023
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 [...]