'The colonisation of Australia was brutal and bloody, but many stories of the frontier have been hidden or denied. This series tells some of them and asks, are we ready for truth telling?' (Series abstract)
'In the last two decades some community-driven memorials to Aboriginal resistance leaders have appeared.'
Once revered as a pioneer, the Scottish explorer Angus McMillan is now known as “the butcher of Gippsland”.
'It took 169 years for a South Australian massacre to be acknowledged but a memorial has at last eased some of the pain for the Wirangu people.'
Kal Ellwood’s great-great-grandfather Jack Noble belonged to the lethally efficient native police. But that’s only half his story.
'Responding to Guardian Australia’s Killing Times project, campaigners and MPs say Makarrata process can pave way for proper treaty.'
'About this map: each marker indicates the location of a fatal historical conflict between Indigenous Australians and settlers during the British colonisation of Australia, in which more than six people died.'
'The Balderstones’ house is just steps from a humble waterway where up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were mowed down, turning the water ‘red with blood’'
'Rather than engendering guilt, the focus should be on healing historical wounds threatening the nation’s future.'
'Witnesses vanished, killers went free and there is reluctance – even today – to acknowledge that the slaughter of Aboriginal people took place.'
'‘History is being squeezed out’ of a curriculum focused on Stem subjects, educators say.'
'Only by engaging with ‘real ugliness’ can healing begin, Liza Dale-Hallett says.'
'Shootings, poisonings and children driven off cliffs – this is a record of state-sanctioned slaughter.'
'At least 14 Aboriginal men, women and children were shot and killed in the Appin massacre near Sydney. Countless others fell to their deaths in the gorge below.'
'The myth of benign, peaceful settlement persists today – even as historians reveal a far more sinister picture.'
'Photographer Brendan Beirne visited massacre sites across Australia. Using infrared technology he has created a series of images which take you to the unquiet places where Indigenous people were slaughtered.' (Article summary)
'One day at dawn in early 1839, Frederick Taylor and a number of other armed white men rode on horseback into a sleeping camp of Aboriginal people near present-day Terang in Victoria’s western district. Most of the people encamped on the banks of Mount Emu Creek were of the Tarnbeere gundidj clan, members of the Djargurd wurrung language group.' (Introduction)
'If you want to know the difference between the Black and White Witness, all you have to do is mention the war. The White Witness will often describe it in this way. In 2004, Palm Island was continually referred to as the 'most dangerous place on Earth outside of a conflict zone', following the tragic death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee (who died on a watchhouse floor, with a liver cleaved in two and injuries akin to those of a plane crash victim). In 2015 the Cape York community of Aurukun was labelled ground zero, with 'clashes between warring families ... Forcing terrified locals to flee for their safety', and 'children (who) were now caught in a warzone'. The same was said of Wadeye, thousands of kilometres away in north-east Arnhem Land, which in 2006 was labelled 'Not the Third World, just Australia's first war zone' with 'scores of Aborigines' 'fleeing their homes' and 'living in squalid refugee-like camps' due to 'gang violence'. In 2013 the 'Sydney Morning Herald' manipulated crime statistics to claim that the far-west NSW town of Bourke, with its large Aboriginal population, was 'the most dangerous place on Earth'.' (Publication abstract)
'Photographer Brendan Beirne visited massacre sites across Australia. Using infrared technology he has created a series of images which take you to the unquiet places where Indigenous people were slaughtered.' (Article summary)
'Photographer Brendan Beirne visited massacre sites across Australia. Using infrared technology he has created a series of images which take you to the unquiet places where Indigenous people were slaughtered.' (Article summary)
'If you want to know the difference between the Black and White Witness, all you have to do is mention the war. The White Witness will often describe it in this way. In 2004, Palm Island was continually referred to as the 'most dangerous place on Earth outside of a conflict zone', following the tragic death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee (who died on a watchhouse floor, with a liver cleaved in two and injuries akin to those of a plane crash victim). In 2015 the Cape York community of Aurukun was labelled ground zero, with 'clashes between warring families ... Forcing terrified locals to flee for their safety', and 'children (who) were now caught in a warzone'. The same was said of Wadeye, thousands of kilometres away in north-east Arnhem Land, which in 2006 was labelled 'Not the Third World, just Australia's first war zone' with 'scores of Aborigines' 'fleeing their homes' and 'living in squalid refugee-like camps' due to 'gang violence'. In 2013 the 'Sydney Morning Herald' manipulated crime statistics to claim that the far-west NSW town of Bourke, with its large Aboriginal population, was 'the most dangerous place on Earth'.' (Publication abstract)
