jane2021-04-28T17:16:22+10:00April 21st, 2021|
Many Australians are calling for Anzac Day to be reinvented as attendances at services have plummeted in recent years, so writes Romain Fathi of Flinders University today (21 April 2021) in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/crowds-at-dawn-services-have-plummeted-in-recent-years-its-time-to-reinvent-anzac-day-157313? While big crowds at Anzac Day services a few years ago may have been partly [...]
jane2022-10-05T09:52:26+11:00March 27th, 2021|
Mervyn Bishop by Greg Lee Mervyn Bishop: The Exhibition National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton, Canberra, 10.00 am to 4.00 pm until 1 August 2021 This exhibition of photographer Mervyn Bishop's work ended on 1 August 2021.
jane2020-05-15T17:33:21+10:00May 15th, 2020|
Although the National Museum of Australia is not open to the public due to the corona virus pandemic, anyone interested in the anniversary of the 250th voyage of HMS Endeavour and the untold stories from First Nations' perspectives can view the museum's exhibition about the voyage online. Watch Endeavour [...]
jane2020-03-29T18:41:05+11:00March 29th, 2020|
The first recorded pandemic in an Australian colony was the smallpox outbreak that decimated the Gadigal people around Sydney in April 1789. Ben Deacon, ABC News online, 29 March 2020 revisits this controversial event that many people today believe was a deliberate act against First Peoples: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-29/coronavirus-and-australias-first-pandemic-caused-by-smallpox/12099430 [...]
jane2018-07-18T01:37:45+10:00July 17th, 2018|
H. Calvert, 'A Deadly Encounter', 1870s. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. (Picture digitally coloured). The University of Melbourne has called for papers by Friday 3 August 2018 for "Colonialism and its Narratives: rethinking the colonial archive in Australia conference" to be held on 10–11 December [...]
jane2018-06-09T01:10:56+10:00June 9th, 2018|
Myall Creek, New South Wales, Australia. It was on Myall Creek station that stockmen massacred 28 Aboriginal men, women and children on 10 June 1838. The trial of 11 convicts and former convicts for the murders created a sensation because, at the time, Europeans were hardly ever charged with [...]
jane2018-04-25T11:22:36+10:00April 25th, 2018|
"Lest We Forget The Frontier Wars"–banners and placards recall conflicts between colonists and Australia's First Peoples on the colonial frontier, Frontier Wars March, Anzac Parade, Reid, Canberra, 25 April 2018. Photo: Jane Morrison If Anzac Day is about Australian servicemen and women fighting in overseas wars to protect [...]
jane2018-04-17T08:28:35+10:00April 17th, 2018|
On Anzac Day, 25 April 2017, Aboriginal people laid wreathes commemorating the fallen in the frontier wars at the Stone of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Photo: Jane Morrison REMINDER/Media Alert Invitation to join 2018 Frontier Wars March on Anzac Day When: Gather at 9.30 am Wednesday 25 [...]
jane2018-04-17T06:56:25+10:00April 17th, 2018|
Sovereignty sign, Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, Australia, 2017. Despite the invasion of their lands, killings, massacres and dispossession since 1788, First Nations have never ceded their sovereignty. Photo Jane Morrison A camp at the Embassy is expected to host 100 or more visitors who will take part in [...]
jane2022-11-16T12:31:52+11:00March 7th, 2018|
Questions continue to be raised about statues commemorating the British and the lack of memorials commemorating the First Australians who have inhabited this continent and its islands for up to possibly 70,000 years or more. The role English Captain James Cook played in British exploration in the 1770s and [...]
