Myall Creek Massacre

Myall Creek Commemoration June Long Weekend 2023

2023-06-01T09:00:00+10:00June 1st, 2023|

The annual commemoration of the Myall Creek Massacre in 1838 will be held at Bingara, New South Wales from 9–11 June 2023.  For more details see the Friends of Myall Creek website: http://myallcreek.org/ The program will include: Friday 9 June 2023 Saturday 10 June 2023 Exhibition Opening, Ceramic Break, [...]

Myall Creek Commemoration to be held June long weekend 2022

2022-05-11T07:23:24+10:00May 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 [...]

Myall Creek Vandalism

2023-06-01T09:22:40+10:00October 18th, 2021|

Vandalism at the Myall Creek Memorial near Bingara, New South Wales was widely condemned in October 2021. According to the Friends of Myall Creek Committee, vandals damaged areas connected to then new sections of the Memorial site, one of three water tanks for the bush garden as well as [...]

Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre 2021

2021-07-21T15:47:27+10:00July 21st, 2021|

Despite the bad weather at Bingara, New South Wales over the June long weekend, the 2021 Myall Creek Massacre memorial ceremony went ahead.  Sophie Scanlon, NBN News, 13 June 2021, reported on the ceremony in her story, 'The 28 lives lost were remembered at the annual Myall Creek Massacre [...]

New guest speaker for Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Ceremony

2021-05-27T11:45:45+10:00May 27th, 2021|

Prominent historian Professor Lyndall Ryan will be the guest speaker at the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Ceremony to be held near Bingara, New South Wales on Sunday, 13 June 2021. The guest speaker for the ceremony previously announced, Professor Henry Reynolds, is unable to attend on medical advice. He will also [...]

Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony 2021 to go ahead

2021-05-10T17:01:28+10:00May 10th, 2021|

To commemorate the 28 Wirrayaraay people, who were murdered in an unprovoked and premeditated attack at Myall Creek, New South Wales on 10 June 1838, the Friends of Myall Creek will hold the annual memorial ceremony over the long weekend on Saturday and Sunday 12 and 13 June 2021. On [...]

Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony 2020 cancelled, goes virtual

2022-10-28T10:27:24+11:00May 15th, 2020|

Owing to the corona virus pandemic, the 20th anniversary Myall Creek Memorial ceremony has been cancelled. However the Friends of Myall Creek are planning a virtual Annual Gathering. Read more from the Friends below. Information about this ceremony is available on the Friends of Myall Creek website under Past [...]

Australia’s frontier killings still escape official memory

2018-06-09T01:10:56+10:00June 9th, 2018|

Myall Creek, New South Wales, Australia. It was on Myall Creek station that stockmen massacred 28 Aboriginal men, women and children on 10 June 1838. The trial of 11 convicts and former convicts for the murders created a sensation because, at the time, Europeans were hardly ever charged with [...]

Myall Creek Memorial Ceremony, Bingara, New South Wales, Sunday, 11 June 2017

2022-10-05T10:06:33+11:00November 6th, 2017|

Friends of Myall Creek, Annual Memorial Gathering: https://myallcreek.org/ 2017 Speaker Mark Tedeschi, speaking on War Crimes and Genocide, 11 June 2017: https://myallcreek.org/2017/04/01/2017-speaker-mark-tedeschi/ You can read more about Past Events held at Myall Creek at: https://myallcreek.org/category/past-events/    

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