Aboriginal massacres

Myall Creek Commemoration June Long Weekend 2023

2023-06-01T09:00:00+10:00June 1st, 2023|

The annual commemoration of the Myall Creek Massacre in 1838 will be held at Bingara, New South Wales from 9–11 June 2023.  For more details see the Friends of Myall Creek website: http://myallcreek.org/ The program will include: Friday 9 June 2023 Saturday 10 June 2023 Exhibition Opening, Ceramic Break, [...]

How (hard) They Fought: sophistication of First Nations’ resistance

2023-05-08T13:32:36+10:00May 8th, 2023|

John Menadue's online Public Policy Journal, Pearls and Irritations, brings the caring and concerned among us more news about Dr Ray Kerhove's new book, How They Fought, Boolarong Press, 2023 about how First Peoples fought to resist invasion and colonisation of Country from 1788: Read Dr Kerhove's 1 May [...]

“Help Us Bury Our Dead” on 25 April 2023

2023-04-21T11:50:55+10:00April 21st, 2023|

Media Release  20 April 2023 "Help Us Bury Our Dead on 25 April 2023" Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia Asserting Australia's First Nations Sovereignty into Governance www.sovereignunion.mobi Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the [...]

Site of frontier war and resistance protected by mine expansion refusal

2022-10-29T08:37:29+11:00October 29th, 2022|

A First Nations' site of frontier war and resistance, in the New South Wales' Hunter Valley, will be protected  following the Glencore coal mine expansion refusal. The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has denied the extension because the heritage impacts of the project would have been too significant and irreversible. [...]

Australian Electoral Commission renamed federal seat of Batman after Aboriginal rights campaigner William Cooper

2022-10-05T15:00:06+11:00October 5th, 2022|

The Australian Electoral Commission 'unanimously agreed' to rename the federal seat of Batman in honour of Aboriginal rights campaigner William Cooper. Read more about the move to change the name of the Federal seat of Batman in Nakari Thorpe's story on NITV News on 20 June 2018 at: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/06/20/federal-seat-batman-be-renamed-after-indigenous-rights-leader-william-cooper [...]

Liffey Falls’ dark history remembered on anniversary of 1827 massacre

2022-10-02T08:25:52+11:00October 2nd, 2022|

One hundred and. ninety four years ago, on 24 June 1827, between 30 and 120 Pallittore people were killed in a colonists' reprisal at Tasmania's Liffey Falls. Read more in Jessica Willard's story in The Examiner of 24 June 2021: https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7312276/no-signs-no-crosses-no-memorials-liffey-falls-dark-history-remembered/

The power of Truganini: reclaiming a hero’s story

2022-10-01T12:05:41+10:00October 1st, 2022|

Truganini has often been mis-represented as 'the last palawa Aboriginal', which is completely false.  Dan Butler tells the truth about palawa woman Truganini and her life in his article, 'The power of Truganini: reclaiming a hero's story', NITV News, 28 September 2022: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/the-power-of-truganini-reclaiming-a-heros-story/qcbi9ugzn Portrait of Truganini [picture]/ [C.A. [...]

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