jane2024-02-01T14:31:36+11:00May 1st, 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 [...]
jane2022-04-24T14:49:11+10:00April 24th, 2022|
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.
jane2022-04-24T10:53:41+10:00April 24th, 2022|
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) [...]
jane2022-04-24T08:45:25+10:00April 18th, 2022|
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/
jane2022-10-05T13:59:56+11:00March 16th, 2022|
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 [...]
jane2022-03-16T15:41:05+11:00March 16th, 2022|
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 [...]
jane2022-02-02T15:29:13+11:00February 2nd, 2022|
"Australia Day" continues to be devisive–some for it, some against Protest March, Canberra ACT, Australia, 26 January 2022. Photo: Jane Morrison As elsewhere in Australia, the pain of 26 January was felt strongly in Tasmania as images of departed ancestors such as Mannarlargenna, William Lanne, and Fanny [...]
jane2022-10-05T14:41:47+11:00November 13th, 2021|
Barrister Tony McAvoy SC advocates for truth commissions and treaties with First Peoples.in his 2021 Dr Charles Perkins oration. In recent years, encouraging the broader Australian public to take an interest in Indigenous Affairs has proven both difficult and problematic, as it is commonly punctuated by calls for Aboriginal [...]
jane2021-11-09T18:07:40+11:00November 9th, 2021|
For more on this story read: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-19/cricket-australia-afl-respond-to-tom-wills-allegations/100473956 posted on ABC Sport on 19 September 2021
jane2021-11-09T17:35:27+11:00November 9th, 2021|
In a recent article, Russell Jackson, delves into whether there is any truth in an 1895 Chicago Tribune story about the involvement of a pioneer of Australian Rules Football, Tom Wills, in reprisals after the 1861 Cullin-la-ringo massacre. Jackson's story: "Experts add weight to discovery that sporting hero Tom [...]
