Appin Massacre Memorial Ceremony, New South Wales, 14 April 2024
Poster Kindly Supplied by Friends of Myall Creek
“Legacy of terror”: Descendant of Victorian colonial family wants monuments to her ancestors removed
Appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission truth-telling inquiry, Suzannah Henty a sixth-generation Henty descendant, called for monuments to her family to be removed. Henty believes that the spray-painting of Henty monuments is evidence of the distress they cause to First Peoples. The inquiry opened in Victoria on Monday 25 [...]
200-Year Old Diary Reveals Unknown Tasmanian Massacre
Rachel Edwards, ABC Radio Hobart, 'Rare soldier's diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years,' Monday 28 December 2020. A disentegrating soldier's diary held in the National Library of Ireland (NAI) has led to the startling discovery of an undocumented massacre of First Peoples in Tasmania [...]
After the (failed) referendum dust settles
Peter Smith, 'After the (failed) referendum dust settles,' Pearls and Irritations, 19 March 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/after-the-failed-referendum-dust-settles/
Killing for Country by David Marr, Australia Institute Zoom Event, 11.00am Wednesday 24 January 2024
https://australiainstitute.org.au/event/killing-for-country-by-david-marr/
Bitter Truths: colonisation was not so good for some
https://johnmenadue.com/bitter-truths-colonisation-was-not-so-good-for-some/
Killing for Country: Another plank in truth-telling
https://johnmenadue.com/killing-for-country-another-plank-in-truth-telling/
Blackmans Point Massacre Site, near Port Macquarie, New South Wales declared an Aboriginal Place earlier this year
Blackman's Point, on the Lands of the Birpai people, near Port Macquarie, New South Wales was recognised as an important massacre site and as an Aboriginal Place earlier this year. Read more: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/blackmans-point-massacre-site-declared-an-aboriginal-place-in-new-south-wales See also Memorials and Monuments on this website for a growing list of memorials and monuments [...]
The Native Mounted Police: extermination on the Australian frontier
Military historian, Professor Peter Stanley of the University of New South Wales, Canberra writes in Pearls and Irritations, 19 July 2023 about why the Australian War Memorial does not wish to include the part the Native Mounted Police played in Australia's frontier conflict: https://johnmenadue.com/the-native-mounted-police-extermination-on-the-australian-frontier/ A very useful book about [...]