jane2025-05-07T16:56:04+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 living around today's Wiseman's Ferry near Sydney and beyond in the colony of New South [...]
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 [...]
jane2024-04-26T11:04:22+10:00April 26th, 2024|
David Stephens, Pearls and Irritations, 25 April 2024, republished from Defending Country, 19 April 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/red-poppies-and-bare-ground-why-do-we-discriminate-among-our-war-dead/ Readers of the above article may be interested in the Memorials and Monuments page on the Australian Frontier Conflicts website.
jane2024-04-27T06:59:41+10:00April 26th, 2024|
Frontier Wars March, Anzac Parade, Reid, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 25 April 2024. Photo: Jane Morrison The marchers were allowed to walk up Anzac Parade but were not permitted to join the annual Anzac Day, RSL veterans' march up Anzac Parade to the new parade ground in [...]
jane2024-04-17T10:00:54+10:00April 16th, 2024|
The annual Frontier Wars March will be held again near the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT on Anzac Day, 25 April 2024. If you are on the News page, click the headline for the poster advertising the event and for contact details.
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 [...]
jane2023-04-10T19:28:21+10:00April 10th, 2023|
'Aboriginal resistance to British invasion should get its own "substantial" section at the Australian War Memorial,' according to Kim Beazley, the new head of the Memorial's council. He says that a frontier wars gallery should display both sides of the conflict, including the resistance of First Natiuons "guerillas". Read [...]
jane2022-12-20T13:16:53+11:00December 20th, 2022|
Guest author, Bruce Cameron, writes on Pearls and Irritations, 18 December 2022: https://johnmenadue.com/will-jandamarra-have-a-place-in-the-new-awm/
jane2022-10-14T18:07:35+11:00October 8th, 2022|
Professor Henry Reynolds discusses the Australian War Memorial's change of tack about recognising the Australian frontier wars, The Conversation, 6 October 2022: https://theconversation.com/recognising-the-warriors-henry-reynolds-on-the-war-memorials-surprising-change-of-direction-191861
