jane2024-04-05T14:07:39+11:00April 5th, 2024|
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 [...]
jane2024-04-05T12:30:54+11:00April 5th, 2024|
Rachel Edwards, ABC Radio Hobart, 'Rare soldier's diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years,' Monday 28 December 2020. A disentegrating soldier's diary held in the National Library of Ireland (NAI) has led to the startling discovery of an undocumented massacre of First Peoples in Tasmania [...]
jane2024-04-05T12:32:35+11:00April 5th, 2024|
Peter Smith, 'After the (failed) referendum dust settles,' Pearls and Irritations, 19 March 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/after-the-failed-referendum-dust-settles/
jane2024-01-22T10:46:35+11:00January 22nd, 2024|
jane2024-01-22T10:37:18+11:00January 22nd, 2024|
https://australiainstitute.org.au/event/killing-for-country-by-david-marr/
jane2023-10-13T15:15:27+11:00October 13th, 2023|
https://johnmenadue.com/bitter-truths-colonisation-was-not-so-good-for-some/
jane2023-10-07T17:20:41+11:00October 7th, 2023|
Former TV host Sheridan Jobbins has accidentally uncovered evidence of a massacre on Dora Dora Station in the Upper Murray, Victoria in the 1830s. Read more in Sarah Krieg's story, ABC Goulburn/Murray, Thursday 5 October 2023: 'Sheridan Jobbins was looking for a piece of land. What she found was [...]
jane2023-10-04T12:23:58+11:00October 4th, 2023|
https://johnmenadue.com/killing-for-country-another-plank-in-truth-telling/
jane2023-09-20T11:28:16+10:00September 20th, 2023|
Although the Development Application for the removal of the William Crowther statue in Hobart's Franklin Square was passed on 23 August 2023, the Hobart City Council's decision has been appealed. Read more in the Council's Crowther Reinterpreted Project Update announced on Wednesday 13 September 2023: https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Creative-Hobart/Creative-Hobart-projects/Crowther-Reinterpreted [...]
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 [...]
