jane2022-10-01T12:05:41+10:00October 1st, 2022|
Truganini has often been mis-represented as 'the last palawa Aboriginal', which is completely false. Dan Butler tells the truth about palawa woman Truganini and her life in his article, 'The power of Truganini: reclaiming a hero's story', NITV News, 28 September 2022: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/the-power-of-truganini-reclaiming-a-heros-story/qcbi9ugzn Portrait of Truganini [picture]/ [C.A. [...]
jane2022-08-29T18:14:54+10:00August 29th, 2022|
NITV Media Release 25 August 2022. Read more here: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2022/08/25/filmmaker-rachel-perkins-reveals-truth-australian-wars-battles-fought-home-soil
jane2022-08-07T09:29:11+10:00August 7th, 2022|
David Stephens, Editor, Honest History, writing for Pearls and Irritations, 7 August 2022: https://johnmenadue.com/australian-war-memorial-needs-to-own-australian-frontier-wars/
jane2022-07-08T15:29:46+10:00July 8th, 2022|
Yet another call for the commemoration of Australia's frontier wars at the Australian War Memorial has been made–this time by Dr Sue Wareham, President of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War. Listen to ABC Radio National's Hamish McDonald interview Dr Wareham, on 7 July 2022, about why the [...]
jane2022-06-05T13:45:28+10:00June 5th, 2022|
Badtjala artist and academic, Fiona Foley, is calling for the name of Griffith University to be changed. The university, located in Queensland was named after Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Australia's first high court justice and an author of the Australian Constitution. Sir Samuel Griffith was an attorney-general or Queensland [...]
jane2024-02-01T14:31:36+11:00May 1st, 2022|
Historian and author James Wilson-Miller will be the Commemoration Speaker at the Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony on 12 June 2022. James Wilson-Miller is from the Gringai clan of the Hunter Valley Wonnarua nation. He grew up in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. For 16 years Mr Wilson-Miller was Curator [...]
jane2022-04-24T14:49:11+10:00April 24th, 2022|
https://nit.com.au/aunty-sallys-joy-as-massacre-site-handed-back-to-darumbal-people/ Also have a look at the earlier post on this website today, 24 April 2022, about the handover of control of this reserve to the Darumbul people.
jane2022-04-24T08:45:25+10:00April 18th, 2022|
https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2022/04/14/undoing-the-great-australian-silence/
jane2022-10-05T13:59:56+11:00March 16th, 2022|
Lorena Allam writes in The Guardian, on 16 March 2022, about a 1981 poisoning of First Nations people at Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Two Aboriginal people died and 14 were admitted to hospital after unwittingly drinking from a poisoned bottle of sherry that was deliberately left near the town's John [...]
jane2022-03-16T15:41:05+11:00March 16th, 2022|
The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed report in The Guardian on 16 March 2022 about the final update of a mapping project that documents massacres of Aboriginal people. The University of Newcastle's latest project update adds 113 more sites where [...]
