Filmmaker reveals truth of wars fought on Australian soil
NITV Media Release 25 August 2022. Read more here: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2022/08/25/filmmaker-rachel-perkins-reveals-truth-australian-wars-battles-fought-home-soil
Council to remove statue in reconciliation move
A small step to reconciliation’: Hobart council to remove statue of William Crowther who stole Aboriginal skull from morgue Former Tasmanian premier, William Crowther, mutilated the body of William Lanne in 1869 and sent his skull to the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Statue of former Tasmanian [...]
Australian War Memorial needs to own Australian frontier wars
David Stephens, Editor, Honest History, writing for Pearls and Irritations, 7 August 2022: https://johnmenadue.com/australian-war-memorial-needs-to-own-australian-frontier-wars/
‘Enabler’ of massacres: the push to change name of Griffith University
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 [...]
Myall Creek Commemoration to be held June long weekend 2022
Historian and author James Wilson-Miller will be the Commemoration Speaker at the Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony on 12 June 2022. James Wilson-Miller is from the Gringai clan of the Hunter Valley Wonnarua nation. He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. For 16 years Mr Wilson-Miller was Curator [...]
Elder overjoyed at Darumbal massacre site handback
https://nit.com.au/aunty-sallys-joy-as-massacre-site-handed-back-to-darumbal-people/ Also have a look at the earlier post on this website today, 24 April 2022, about the handover of control of this reserve to the Darumbul people.
Control over sacred site returned to the Darumbal people
Control over a sacred site where 300 First Nations people were massacred in the late 1800s has been handed back to the Darumbal people. The Queensland Government's latest move gives trusteeship to the Gawula Aboriginal Land Trust of a 13.5-hectare reserve at the foot of Gai-i (formerly Mt Wheeler) [...]
New book on ‘the great Australian silence’ of our history
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/
Attempted massacres of Aboriginal people took place in the Northern Territory as recently as 1981 according to historian
Lorena Allam writes in The Guardian, on 16 March 2022, about a 1981 poisoning of First Nations people at Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Two Aboriginal people died and 14 were admitted to hospital after unwittingly drinking from a poisoned bottle of sherry that was deliberately left near the town's John [...]
Police or other government forces committed almost half of massacres of Aboriginal people research finds
The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed report in The Guardian on 16 March 2022 about the final update of a mapping project that documents massacres of Aboriginal people. The University of Newcastle's latest project update adds 113 more sites where [...]