jane2023-04-26T11:11:15+10:00April 26th, 2023|
As Aaron Smith writes in The Guardian, unofficial recognition has been growing of those killed on Australian soil in colonial frontier conflicts, but official commemoration is still being debated. Read more in Aaron Smith's story on 24 April 2023: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/24/calls-grow-for-australias-frontier-wars-to-be-remembered-on-anzac-day Chair of the Council of the Australian War Memorial [...]
jane2023-04-21T11:50:55+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 [...]
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 [...]
jane2020-03-25T11:32:16+11:00March 25th, 2020|
Owing to the Coronavirus outbreak, Anzac Day, 25 April 2020, will not include commemorations in which the public take part in person. Instead the Australian War Memorial will broadcast a private ceremony to be held at 5.30 am in the Commemorative Area and Hall of Memory. Read more about the [...]
jane2022-10-05T15:50:45+11:00March 25th, 2020|
On 22 November 2019, when Dr Brendan Nelson was still Director of the Australian War Memorial (AWM), many organisations and members of the public called for Australia's 'frontier wars' to be recognised as part of the $500 million expansion of the AWM. Read more at: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6506929/support-for-frontier-wars-commemoration-in-awm-public-consultation/ It remains to [...]
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 [...]
jane2018-04-17T08:28:35+10:00April 17th, 2018|
On Anzac Day, 25 April 2017, Aboriginal people laid wreathes commemorating the fallen in the frontier wars at the Stone of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Photo: Jane Morrison REMINDER/Media Alert Invitation to join 2018 Frontier Wars March on Anzac Day When: Gather at 9.30 am Wednesday 25 [...]
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 [...]
jane2018-04-15T00:26:09+10:00April 15th, 2018|
Frontier Wars March, Canberra, 25 April 2017 Photo: Jane Morrison The Frontier Wars March, an annual event since 2011, will be held again on Anzac Parade, Reid, Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2018. Invitation to Join the 2018 Frontier Wars March on Anzac Day When: [...]
jane2022-10-06T15:44:11+11:00April 9th, 2018|
On Anzac Day, 25 April 2017, after the National Anzac Day Commemoration Ceremony, First Nations people laid wreathes, commemorating the fallen in the frontier wars, at the Stone of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Photo: Jane Morrison The Victorian government and the Returned Services League (RSL), are [...]
