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White-washed' history of Indigenous massacres subject of new Melbourne exhibition

White-washed' history of Indigenous massacres subject of new Melbourne exhibition -  Aboriginal massacre in Australia has long been a source of controversial and contested historical narrative. Indigenous people have become a ...

Australia -| Indigenous Massacres

Indigenous Massacres : Among the least known episodes in Australian history is the massacre of indigenous people by the first settlers. Where did this happen, what were the causes and what has been the ramification? Why do we know so little about these events? Trevor ...

Pat Dodson says murderous prejudice links Indigenous massacres to Christchurch

Pat Dodson says murderous prejudice links Indigenous massacres to Christchurch - The Labor senator and Yawuru man Pat Dodson spoke about the links between Australia's massacre history and the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, ...

Australia's violent past documented in Indigenous massacre map

Australia's violent past documented in Indigenous massacre map - A landmark project by the University of Newcastle has documented more than 250 Indigenous massacres across Australia , the sheer numbers ...

Research Uncovers More Aboriginal Massacres in Australia

Research Uncovers More Aboriginal Massacres in Australia - A landmark project mapping Indigenous massacres by European settlers in Australia between 1788-1930 now includes 250 sites. Extensive new ...

Map charts early massacres of indigenous Australians

Map charts early massacres of indigenous Australians - Researchers have created what they say is the most comprehensive map yet to detail the massacres of indigenous Australians by European settlers.

Sovereignty never ceded: how two Indigenous elders changed Canberra's big day

Sovereignty never ceded: how two Indigenous elders changed Canberra's big day - That, of course, gives us a window on to the white stereotyping of Indigenous people at a time when Australia believed it was – due to massacres, ...

Can we handle the truth? Indigenous Australians depend on it

Can we handle the truth? Indigenous Australians depend on it - From frontier massacres to the theft of children, violence reverberates generationally, which is why a formal truth and justice commission is a crucial ...

Australia's massacres and the conspiracy of silence

Did you know that there were state-sanctioned massacres of Indigenous people as recently as 1928? These stories, and many more, have been ... View article...

Brisbane sculpture's hidden message about 94 massacres

Brisbane sculpture's hidden message about 94 massacres - it was made, says its creator, Queensland Indigenous artist Fiona Foley. ... start to acknowledge this land was taken off the Aboriginal people," she said. ... a society, Australia had come to terms with the fact this country was invaded ...

Top 5 acts of racial discrimination in Australia

Top 5 acts of racial discrimination in Australia  - This was just the start of what would become a series of massacres not just of Indigenous Australians but a bunch of other non-whities including the ...

Top 5 acts of racial discrimination in Australia

Top 5 acts of racial discrimination in Australia  - This was just the start of what would become a series of massacres not just of Indigenous Australians but a bunch of other non-whities including the ...

Israel in the Kimberley: How the Top End nearly became a global Jewish hub

Israel in the Kimberley: How the Top End nearly became a global Jewish hub - There were] all these massacres of Aboriginal people and this type of thing, so I don't really know where these people who would have come would ... Ms Reeves said that the experiences of Jewish people and indigenous peoples in Australia at the time could have born resemblance to one another.

Artist Ben Quilty confronts colonial denial with Aboriginal massacre site art works

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Artist Ben Quilty confronts colonial denial with Aboriginal massacre site art works  - It remains astonishing for Quilty that many sites of massacres of indigenous people around Australia remain unmarked, and without suitable ...

You Yangs tour to showcase history

You Yangs tour to showcase history - Ms Eccles said that although the You Yangs was a beautiful area, it was also significant for the massacres and losses which indigenous people had suffered after Britain invaded Australia . “It's really important that any events which are held on country are about culture and heritage, and that we start with ...

Australia must confront the brutal truths of its history, says Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy

Australia must confront the brutal truths of its history, says Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy - Truths about the darker episodes of Australian history – particularly the massacres of Indigenous people at the hands of European settlers – must be ...

Destroy monuments to my family': Settler descendant's pain over massacres

... Aboriginal people. Suzannah Henty, a sixth generation descendant of squatter James Henty, said her family had “enslaved” Indigenous people, and ... View article...