jane2023-09-20T11:18:57+10:00September 20th, 2023|
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 [...]
jane2023-09-20T10:58:17+10:00September 20th, 2023|
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 [...]
jane2023-06-01T08:11:18+10:00May 31st, 2023|
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 [...]
jane2023-05-08T13:32:36+10:00May 8th, 2023|
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 [...]
jane2023-04-21T11:50:55+10:00April 21st, 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 [...]
jane2023-04-10T19:28:21+10:00April 10th, 2023|
'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 [...]
jane2022-12-20T13:16:53+11:00December 20th, 2022|
Guest author, Bruce Cameron, writes on Pearls and Irritations, 18 December 2022: https://johnmenadue.com/will-jandamarra-have-a-place-in-the-new-awm/
jane2022-12-08T08:45:40+11:00December 8th, 2022|
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's podcast and TV series, Stuff the British Stole, Series 1, has devoted its sixth episode, 'Return', to Noongar warrior Yagan's story. The documentary examines how Yagan met his death defending Noongar country from British colonists. His remains were missing for more than a century. The fight [...]
jane2022-12-08T08:21:02+11:00December 8th, 2022|
Despite some recent indications that the Australian War Memorial is considering "a broader and deeper" coverage of frontier wars fought on Australia soil, David Stephens points out that the space to be allocated will be "proportionate" and "modest". Read more in 'The War Memorial trial is again running away from the [...]
jane2022-10-29T08:37:29+11:00October 29th, 2022|
A First Nations' site of frontier war and resistance, in the New South Wales' Hunter Valley, will be protected following the Glencore coal mine expansion refusal. The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has denied the extension because the heritage impacts of the project would have been too significant and irreversible. [...]
