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Reflect and connect to give peace a chance
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 September 2015
3 Comments
This year's International Day of Peace comes amid much war-making. Those with a feel for history may see it as an echo of an idealistic age that had experienced years of war and was determined to shape a better world. To those caught in fear and violence, and promised another ten years of the same, it will come as an insinuating hope against hope; a reproach to a world that stirs rather than douses wars.
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AUSTRALIA

The last Anzac's bullshit detector
- Michael Mullins
- 20 April 2015
26 Comments
We can judge the exuberance of the Anzac commemoration against the nonchalance of the last Anzac Alec Campbell. He said he went to Gallipoli for adventure and, to him, 'Gallipoli is Gallipoli'. John Howard argued Anzac defined our 'sense of self', although he did acknowledge that Anzac is something that was made up. It's better to let historians rather than politicians select events that define the nation, even if they opt for the frontier wars of the 19th century that depict white Australians as violent and racist rather than heroic and virtuous.
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AUSTRALIA

Time to honour Aboriginal frontier warriors
- Paul Newbury
- 21 January 2014
23 Comments
New Zealand, our partner in the Anzac legend, has no problem commemorating the Maori Wars of 1845–1872. Yet the Australian War Memorial refuses to honour Aboriginal warriors who fought and died defending their lands and their people against white invader settlers in the Frontier Wars of 1788–1928. This is a moral issue, and has the effect of excluding a whole people from commemoration based on a trifle.
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AUSTRALIA

My family connection to Aboriginal genocide
- Paul Newbury
- 30 April 2013
24 Comments
My great-grandfather John Eckersley Newbury was a convict and a squatter who became wealthy through a generous land policy and because his wife's family helped set him up on the land. During this period, the Kamilaroi of northern NSW fought a guerilla war of resistance against the British.
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AUSTRALIA

The Australian wars that Anzac Day neglects
- Dean Ashenden
- 22 April 2013
24 Comments
Around 20,000 people died in a series of violent conflicts between peoples extending across the entire continent and more than half of our history. We have yet to find a way to remember the loss of those people with anything like the scale and intensity of our other commemorations, such as Anzac Day.
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AUSTRALIA

Forgotten Aboriginal war heroes
- Paul W. Newbury
- 19 April 2011
21 Comments
In 1790, resistance hero Pemulwuy killed Governor Phillip's convict gamekeeper for his abuse of Aboriginal women. The subsequent Frontier Wars raged for 140 years. Anzac celebrations tend to neglect the many Indigenous Australians who died in defence of their land.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Godfrey Moase, Marcelle Mogg, John Carmody
- 10 July 2006
Reviews of Frontier Justice: Weapons of mass destruction and the bushwacking of America; Best Australian political cartoons and Quarterly Essay, ‘Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance’.
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AUSTRALIA

The frontier fallen
- Tom Grifﬁths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are ﬁghting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Grifﬁths argues for a different approach.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Our killing fields
- Bob Reece
- 24 June 2006
2 Comments
Bob Reece reviews Patrick Collins’ Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842–1852.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

In a minor key
- Luke Fraser
- 25 April 2006
Luke Fraser reviews Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900, by Tony Roberts.
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Keywords: Frontier Wars