jane2026-04-30T11:37:09+10:00April 30th, 2026|
Read more in Stephen A Russell's story on ABC Arts, Movies, Wednesday 29 April 2026: "First Nations Film Wolfram writes hope into heavy history", https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-29/wolfram-interview-warwick-thornton-deborah-mailman/106574946 This film, inspired by true events that happened in Australia's Northern Territory in the colonial 1930s, tells the story of three boys separated from [...]
jane2025-12-10T18:03:46+11:00December 10th, 2025|
The Northern Territory Police have re-opened a more than 90-year old cold case into the mysterious disappearance in November 1934 of Yolngu clan leader Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda (photo left). On 9 November 1934, the High Court overturned Dhakiyarr's conviction for the spearing murder of mounted constable Albert McColl. Following his [...]
jane2025-11-23T12:23:32+11:00November 23rd, 2025|
Historian Raymond Evans reviews Professor Henry Reynolds' new book, Looking From the North: Australian History from the Top Down, NewSouth, November 2025: https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11/heat-terror-and-resistance-henry-reynolds-bold-new-book-takes-a-top-end-view-of-australian-history/?utm_source=Pearls+%26+Irritations&utm_campaign=61b37e7a62-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0c6b037ecb-61b37e7a62-589123391 More from publishers NewSouth: 'Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to [...]
jane2024-06-18T17:30:49+10:00June 18th, 2024|
Dr Robyn Smith's book, Licence to Kill: massacre men of Australia's north, details massacres of First Peoples that took place in Australia's north from 1824 up to the 1980s. Read more about this publication in Madison Howarth's story on NITV, 18 June 2024: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/new-book-reveals-names-of-those-who-led-massacres-in-countrys-north/jvairh6lp?dlb=[2024/06/18]%20del_nitv_bau&did=DM38272&cid=nitv:edm:acnitv:relation:nitvbrand:na:na Dr Robyn Smith is a [...]
