jane2022-10-14T18:07:35+11:00October 8th, 2022|
Professor Henry Reynolds discusses the Australian War Memorial's change of tack about recognising the Australian frontier wars, The Conversation, 6 October 2022: https://theconversation.com/recognising-the-warriors-henry-reynolds-on-the-war-memorials-surprising-change-of-direction-191861
jane2022-10-01T13:43:05+10:00October 1st, 2022|
After many years of demands for the recognition of Australia's frontier conflicts, the Australian War Memorial (AWM) has acquiesced. Rachel Perkins's three-part documentary, The Australian Wars, currently airing on SBS/NITV, has helped tip the balance. The series explores some of the main incidents that occurred during the [...]
jane2022-10-01T12:05:41+10:00October 1st, 2022|
Truganini has often been mis-represented as 'the last palawa Aboriginal', which is completely false. Dan Butler tells the truth about palawa woman Truganini and her life in his article, 'The power of Truganini: reclaiming a hero's story', NITV News, 28 September 2022: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/the-power-of-truganini-reclaiming-a-heros-story/qcbi9ugzn Portrait of Truganini [picture]/ [C.A. [...]
jane2022-07-08T15:29:46+10:00July 8th, 2022|
Yet another call for the commemoration of Australia's frontier wars at the Australian War Memorial has been made–this time by Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War. Listen to ABC Radio National's Hamish McDonald interview Dr Wareham, on 7 July 2022, about why the [...]
jane2022-06-05T13:45:28+10:00June 5th, 2022|
Badtjala artist and academic, Fiona Foley, is calling for the name of Griffith University to be changed. The university, located in Queensland was named after Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Australia's first high court justice and an author of the Australian Constitution. Sir Samuel Griffith was an attorney-general or Queensland [...]
jane2024-02-01T14:09:45+11:00February 10th, 2022|
Dan Bourchier, ABC News, Canberra, traces the 50 years of history and continuing relevance of Canberra's Aboriginal Embassy. New item not currently (1 February 2024) available on ABCiView. Similar news items appeared in other news outlets at the time. "The Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 50: the history of an [...]
jane2022-02-02T16:24:50+11:00February 2nd, 2022|
50th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Embassy–the elephant in the room Ghillar Michael Anderson, the last surviving member of the "Founding Four", who set up the Aboriginal Embassy under a beach umbrella opposite Old Parliament House, Canberra on 26 January 2022, reveals his version of the divide and conquer tactics [...]
jane2022-02-02T15:29:13+11:00February 2nd, 2022|
"Australia Day" continues to be devisive–some for it, some against Protest March, Canberra ACT, Australia, 26 January 2022. Photo: Jane Morrison As elsewhere in Australia, the pain of 26 January was felt strongly in Tasmania as images of departed ancestors such as Mannarlargenna, William Lanne, and Fanny [...]
jane2022-01-26T20:31:36+11:00January 26th, 2022|
Aboriginal Embassy, 50th Anniversary March, Canberra 26 January 2022. Photo: Jane Morrison. This march began from the National Film and Sound Archive, in the precinct of the Australian National University, where the July 1972 protest marches, supporting Aboriginal land rights, sovereignty and the Aboriginal Embassy, started. The above photograph was taken [...]
jane2022-10-05T14:41:47+11:00November 13th, 2021|
Barrister Tony McAvoy SC advocates for truth commissions and treaties with First Peoples.in his 2021 Dr Charles Perkins oration. In recent years, encouraging the broader Australian public to take an interest in Indigenous Affairs has proven both difficult and problematic, as it is commonly punctuated by calls for Aboriginal [...]
