jane2024-02-01T13:34:41+11:00May 10th, 2021|
To commemorate the 28 Wirrayaraay people, who were murdered in an unprovoked and premeditated attack at Myall Creek, New South Wales on 10 June 1838, the Friends of Myall Creek will hold the annual memorial ceremony over the long weekend on Saturday and Sunday 12 and 13 June 2021. On [...]
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 [...]
jane2021-04-21T17:03:01+10:00April 21st, 2021|
MEDIA ALERT 21 April 2021 10th Frontier Wars Remembrance March Assembling from 10 am Anzac Day, 25 April 2021 Cnr Anzac Parade & Constitution Ave, Parkes, Canberra, ACT 2600 All welcome and bring a banner for the unmarked killing fields. Least We Forget the Frontier Wars “We must be persistent [...]
jane2024-04-17T10:30:54+10:00June 4th, 2020|
Mount Dispersion, site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in 1836, has been recognised as a Declared Aboriginal Place. The gazettal, on 24 April 2020, of the site gives it legal recognition and protection as a significant site under New South Wales law. On 27 May 2020, 184 years ago, [...]
jane2025-07-03T13:57:16+10:00May 15th, 2020|
HISTORICAL POST PLEASE NOTE THAT The Friends of Myall Creek National Committee has changed since this post. For information about the Friends of Myall. Creek (1 February 2024) see the Contact Us page: https://myallcreek.org/contact-us/ Original Post: Owing to the corona virus pandemic, the 20th anniversary Myall Creek Memorial ceremony [...]
jane2025-07-03T13:57:30+10:00April 20th, 2020|
On 17 April 1816, at least 14 Dharawal men, women and children died in the Appin Massacre in the former colony of New South Wales. The killings, ordered by the then Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, were perpetrated by the military against Aboriginal people in reprisal for [...]
jane2025-07-03T13:57:02+10:00March 20th, 2020|
A long-running archaeology project, funded by the Australian Research Council, has been looking into what happened to Aboriginal men who were recruited to the Queensland Native Mounted Police, their involvement in 'the frontier wars' and the resultant trauma that impacted their lives. Read more about this story in EurekaAlert! [...]
jane2023-09-20T10:18:38+10:00October 4th, 2018|
Tully Falls, Queensland UNESCO World Heritage listed Wet Tropics, Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo: Wikipedia Australian Terrorism, by Stanley Lenoy, of Stan Lenoy Films, published in September 2018 was a short video about massacres that occurred in the Tully/Innifail region of colonial Queensland. The video included [...]
jane2023-09-11T14:01:35+10:00October 4th, 2018|
More information is coming out about the extent of frontier violence in colonial South Australia. An example, Jon Ovan's story 'Bloody history comes to light' appeared in the Port Lincoln Times and in the West Coast Sentinel on 1 August 2018.
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 [...]
