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 [...]
jane2018-05-30T20:58:46+10:00May 30th, 2018|
A massacre of Aboriginal people at Waterloo Bay, Elliston, South Australia has been commemorated with a memorial 170 years on. Read more in Nicola Gage's story dated 19 May 2017 on ABC News online at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-19/waterloo-bay-massacre-commemorated-170-years-later-with-memorial/8539416
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 [...]
jane2018-04-19T09:26:48+10:00April 19th, 2018|
William Joseph Punch, a soldier who served in World War I, was a survivor of a massacre of Aboriginal people at Lake Cowal, central-western New South Wales in 1880. Read more about his story, repeated in the Crookwell Gazette on 19 April 2018 at: https://www.crookwellgazette.com.au/story/5352212/aboriginal-man-william-punch-survives-massacre-and-enlists-in-great-war/?cs=5767
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 [...]
jane2018-04-13T08:05:31+10:00April 10th, 2018|
Ngaarda Media has uploaded a video, narrated by Ernie Dingo, on YouTube about the Yaburara Flying Foam Massacre that took place 150 years ago, beginning in February 1868. A remembrance ceremony will be held in the Murujuga National Park, Burrup Peninsula, Dampier Archipelago on Western Australia on Sunday 15 April [...]
jane2018-04-10T07:20:32+10:00April 9th, 2018|
A plaque commemorates at least 14 Aboriginal people of the Dharawal Nation killed in a massacre near Appin, New South Wales on 17 April 1816. Photo Jane Morrison, September 2016 It is 202 years since this atrocity, ordered by the New South Wales military, occurred. A memorial service [...]
jane2018-02-15T06:48:03+11:00February 15th, 2018|
Calls are being made to remove an appalling sign from an Aboriginal massacre site near Mackay in Queensland, Australia. The highly insensitive, thoughtless sign, erected during the recent holiday period, has deeply offended descendants of those involved in the 1860s incident. Many other people believe the sign is disgusting and [...]
jane2018-05-30T20:52:25+10:00December 6th, 2017|
Ten places in north Queensland, containing the racist word N***** are to be discontinued and renamed. The name changes are to be published in the Queensland Gazette in late September 2017. For more information read Meghna Ball's story on ABC News online updated on 29 August 2017 at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-29/ten-racist-names-queensland-wiped-off-maps/8852536
