Australian Frontier Wars

Yaburara Flying Foam Massacre 150th Anniversary Remembrance Day

2018-04-13T08:05:31+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 [...]

Appin Massacre remembered 202 years on

2018-04-10T07:20:32+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 [...]

Frontier Wars making news again in lead up to Anzac Day

2022-10-06T15:44:11+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 [...]

‘Sweet Country’ preview held in Alice Springs

2018-01-23T00:24:54+11:00January 21st, 2018|

Sweet Country, award-winning director Warwick Thornton's new feature film, has previewed to proud and excited audiences in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Highlighting Australia's Frontier Wars, so far not widely acknowledged, accepted or even known about by 'mainstream Australia', the film depicts early 20th–century colonists' deep fear of Aboriginal resistance, their [...]

Racist place names in Queensland’s north to be wiped off maps

2018-05-30T20:52:25+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

Frontier Wars wing needed

2022-10-05T15:25:37+11:00November 6th, 2017|

A Frontier Wars wing at the Australian War Memorial would help improve the perceptions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have of themselves, would fundamentally change the distorted perception many Australians have of our history, and would potentially change the relationship between First Peoples and other Australians. An opinion [...]

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