jane2026-04-03T12:51:10+11:00April 3rd, 2026|
Date: Sunday 19 April, 2026 Time: 11:00am–3.30pm Venue: Cataract Dam Picnic Ground, Appin Road, Appin, New South Wales This year marks 210 years since the Appin Massacre of 17 April 1816, a significant and painful moment in the history of the Dharawal people. The annual memorial ceremony will be [...]
jane2025-11-23T12:23:32+11:00November 23rd, 2025|
Historian Raymond Evans reviews Professor Henry Reynolds' new book, Looking From the North: Australian History from the Top Down, NewSouth, November 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/heat-terror-and-resistance-henry-reynolds-bold-new-book-takes-a-top-end-view-of-australian-history/?utm_source=Pearls+%26+Irritations&utm_campaign=61b37e7a62-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0c6b037ecb-61b37e7a62-589123391 More from publishers NewSouth: 'Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to [...]
jane2025-08-04T12:29:23+10:00August 4th, 2025|
Coded diary entries from an early colonist in the Geraldton area of Western Australia reveal killings of Yamatji Aboriginal people in retaliation for cattle stealing. Read more about these atrocities in Paul Gallagher's story in The Guardian, Morning Mail and related podcasts, 4 August 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/04/morning-mail-monday-ntwnfb and [...]
jane2026-04-15T11:37:35+10:00August 4th, 2025|
Revelations from Victoria'a Yoorrook Justice Commission throws more light on the atrocities that occurred across Australia during the frontier period. Read more in the story by Nate Woodall and Kate Ashton on ABC News, 2 July 2025: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/yoorrook-justice-inquiry-key-findings-takeaways/105483168 You can access the Yoorrook Justice Commission here: https://www.yoorrook.org.au/history/victorias-history-to-now There is [...]
jane2025-08-04T08:14:34+10:00July 7th, 2025|
An article in The Conversation, 7 July 2025 reviews historian Stephen Gapps' recent publication, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, NewSouth Publishing, 2025: https://theconversation.com/a-defiant-stand-histories-of-australias-frontier-wars-are-revealing-their-true-complexity-but-theres-more-to-be-done-253233 The Australian Frontier Conflicts website has more on publications like Uprising about frontier conflicts and wars, see for example: Bibliography, Books, [...]
jane2025-07-07T17:47:59+10:00July 7th, 2025|
Here's a recent update on Victoria's Yoorook Justice Commission: Findings of genocide, the importance of Treaty and redress, and of the truth-telling process. Read more in Cameron Gooley's story, 'A gift to the people of Victoria': here's what mob think of Yoorook's truth findings, National Indigenous Television (NITV), 3 July [...]
jane2025-05-20T17:02:41+10:00May 20th, 2025|
jane2025-05-20T17:16:27+10:00May 7th, 2025|
Kate Grenville's new book, Unsettled: A journey through time and place, Black Inc., 2025, deals with Australian history from the point of view of a descendant of people who dispossessed land from First Peoples, who were living around today's Wiseman's Ferry near Sydney and beyond in the colony of [...]
jane2025-04-15T19:04:28+10:00April 15th, 2025|
Join Us in the Frontier Wars Commemoration 9am 25/4/25 Media Alert 15 April 2025 Professor Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic calls out for [...]
jane2025-04-15T09:53:54+10:00April 15th, 2025|
The annual Frontier Wars March will be held in Canberra, Australia on Anzac Day, 25 April 2025. The march is held to remind Australians and the world that First Nations defended Country from British colonisation from January 1788 when the First Fleet arrived in the convict colony of New [...]
