Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples – Australian Frontier Conflicts

Book reveals those who led massacres in Australia’s north

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 [...]

Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Gathering 2024

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: [...]

Premier prepared to apologise to First Nations Victorians for government injustices

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 [...]

Red Poppies and Bare Ground––Defending Country Memorial Project

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.

Four Gweagal spears stolen by Captain Cook and crew in 1770 returned to La Perouse community, New South Wales, 254 years later

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 [...]

Frontier Wars March, Canberra ACT, Anzac Day, 25 April 2024

jane2024-04-17T10:00:54+10:00April 16th, 2024|

The annual Frontier Wars March will be held again near the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT on Anzac Day, 25 April 2024. If you are on the News page, click the headline for the poster advertising the event and for contact details.

“Legacy of terror”: Descendant of Victorian colonial family wants monuments to her ancestors removed

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 [...]

Bitter Truths: colonisation was not so good for some

jane2023-10-13T15:15:27+11:00October 13th, 2023|

https://johnmenadue.com/bitter-truths-colonisation-was-not-so-good-for-some/

Dora Dora massacre evidence accidentally uncovered

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 [...]

Nauo people back from near annihilation with hopes native title will deliver bright future

jane2023-06-01T08:11:18+10:00May 31st, 2023|

In the mid-1800s the Nauo people of what is known today in English as the Eyre Peninsula, were almost wiped out by the arrival of colonists. Today Nauo survivors are able to tell their story. ABC Eyre Peninsula's Jodie Hamilton reports on the Nauo people's great win. Read more [...]