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Australia's story of spear versus gun needs telling

Australians need to know thousands of Aboriginal people died defending Country with spears, says one of the activists who founded the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.

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Tony Abbott’s argument about Australian democracy is Trumpian in intent and based on half-truths

Former PM’s new book reads like a style manual for March for Australia types, weaving together evidence and myth, history and ideology

The Guardian - AU

More than 10,000 First Nations people killed in Australia’s frontier wars, final massacre map shows

‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher

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Australian senator Lidia Thorpe confronted King Charles with a string of claims. How do they stack up?

The Gurnai Gunditjmara and Djab-Wurrung woman accused the crown of a range of crimes against Indigenous people at Parliament House

The Guardian - AU

'Truly great historian': Life of famed academic Lyndall Ryan remembered

'She significantly changed the landscape of Australian history.'

Newcastle Herald

Lyndall Ryan’s impact on Australian history research will be felt for many years to come

Ryan’s rigorous, public-facing study of frontier violence and massacres led to the massacre map, which continues to attract international attention. She was also a cherished friend

The Guardian - AU

Homicides down, suicides up: professor calls for more research

'People still have a very sugar-coated view of what Anzac was really all about.'

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Massacres during Frontier Wars in north-west NSW mapped by University of Newcastle

Seasoned researchers are "shocked" at how many frontier massacres they discovered, but a local Anaiwan man is not so surprised.

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The map of Australia’s frontier massacres is done, but researchers say picture remains unfinished

‘Code of silence’ around mass killings and the technical definitions of massacres mean there is much more left to uncover

The Guardian - AU

More evidence of 'genocidal killings' of Aboriginal people in frontier times, University of Newcastle research reveals

A pattern of "brutal" reprisals and "genocidal killings" began to emerge in the late 19th and 20th centuries as thousands of Aboriginal people were murdered in colonial times, new research suggests.

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Almost half the massacres of Aboriginal people were by police or other government forces, research finds

The final update of the project mapping massacres on Australia’s colonial frontier adds a further 113 sites where six or more people were killed

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