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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.

AAP · Apr 17

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 · Oct 20, 2025

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

The Guardian - AU · Feb 23, 2025

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.

ABC News · Mar 23, 2022

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 · Mar 16, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 15, 2022

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

The Guardian - AU · Mar 15, 2022