jane2025-05-07T17:35:58+10:00May 7th, 2025|
Nearly eighty years ago, First People walked off stations in the Pilbara, Western Australia in what has become known as the Pilbara Strike. Like the later more famous 1966 Wave Hill Walkout in the Northern Territory, the Pilbara Strike is a story of resistance, resilience and strength carried on [...]
jane2025-05-07T16:56:04+10:00May 7th, 2025|
Kate Grenville's new book, Unsettled: A journey through time and place, Black Inc., 2025, deals with Australian history from the point of view of a descendant of people who dispossessed land from First Peoples living around today's Wiseman's Ferry near Sydney and beyond in the colony of New South [...]
jane2025-04-15T19:04:28+10:00April 15th, 2025|
Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 9am 25/4/25 Media Alert 15 April 2025 Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic calls out for [...]
jane2025-04-15T09:53:54+10:00April 15th, 2025|
The annual Frontier Wars March will be held in Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2025. The march is held to remind Australians and the world that First Nations defended Country from British colonisation from January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in the convict colony of New [...]
jane2024-06-18T17:30:49+10:00June 18th, 2024|
Dr Robyn Smith's book, Licence to Kill: massacre men of Australia's north, details massacres of First Peoples that took place in Australia's north from 1824 up to the 1980s. Read more about this publication in Madison Howarth's story on NITV, 18 June 2024: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/new-book-reveals-names-of-those-who-led-massacres-in-countrys-north/jvairh6lp?dlb=[2024/06/18]%20del_nitv_bau&did=DM38272&cid=nitv:edm:acnitv:relation:nitvbrand:na:na Dr Robyn Smith is a [...]
jane2024-06-11T11:55:49+10:00June 11th, 2024|
One hundred and eighty six years after the massacre of First Peoples at Myall Creek, New South Wales, the annual commemoration ceremony and associated events was held over the June long weekend 2024. Read more in Keira Jenkins's story, National Indigenous Times, 10 June 2024: [...]
jane2024-06-11T11:30:23+10:00June 11th, 2024|
Premier of the State of Victoria, Jacinta Allan, appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, in Naarm (Melbourne), has announced that she is prepared to apologise to Victoria's First Nations for past injustices. Read more: Declan Brennan National Indigenous Times, 29 April 2024: https://nit.com.au/29-04-2024/11104/victorian-premier-says-she-is-prepared-to-apologise-to-first-nations-victorians-for-injustices-suffered-due-to-government-policies For more about frontier conflicts that happened [...]
jane2024-04-26T11:04:22+10:00April 26th, 2024|
David Stephens, Pearls and Irritations, 25 April 2024, republished from Defending Country, 19 April 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/red-poppies-and-bare-ground-why-do-we-discriminate-among-our-war-dead/ Readers of the above article may be interested in the Memorials and Monuments page on the Australian Frontier Conflicts website.
jane2024-04-24T17:06:03+10:00April 24th, 2024|
Kathryn Diss and Adrian Wilson, 'Emotional moment' as spears taken by Captain Cook are returned to Indigenous community, from ABC Europe correspondent, Kathryn Diss, and Adrian Wilson, in Cambridge, England, 23 April 2024. Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/gweagal-spears-captain-cook-took-handed-to-indigenous-community/103756446 See also Ben Lewis's story on SBS News, 24 April 2024: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/survivors-from-a-moment-in-time-ancient-spears-handed-back/0i85urkau On [...]
jane2024-04-17T12:01:17+10:00April 17th, 2024|
Kooma, Murawarii and Gamilaraay Activist and Podcaster, Boe Spearim, is the guest speaker for the 2024 Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Ceremony. It will take place at on Sunday 9 June 2024 at the Myall Creek Hall next to Myall Creek Bridge between Bingara and Delungra, New South Wales. For [...]
