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War took place across the Liverpool Plains, with 16 British and up to 500 Indigenous Australians being killed between 1832 and 1838. The violence in this region included several massacres of Indigenous people, including the Waterloo Creek massacre and Myall Creek massacres in 1838, and did not end until 1843.
The series calls on the Australian War Memorial, who had previously rejected including the frontier wars in its exhibitions, [1] to acknowledge and recognise those who died during the conflicts. [11] In an episode of the series, the War Memorial's director Matt Anderson says it was conceived to represent military activity overseas, not within ...
Telegram sent from Broome, Western Australia, 20 July 1907; recorded by Postmaster-General's office . Colonial settlers frequently clashed with Indigenous people (on continental Australia) during and after the wave of mass immigration of Europeans into the continent, which began in the late 18th century and lasted until the early 20th.
Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87] In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian Parliament, deliver an apology to the stolen generations and to all Indigenous Australians who had suffered because of the unjust government policies of the past.
This is an incomplete list of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Ohio since European contact. The region was part of New France from 1679–1763, ruled by Great Britain from 1763–1783, and part of the United States of America 1783–present.
1932: Emu War; 1932–1934: Caledon Bay crisis; A propaganda poster calling for Australians to avenge the sinking of Centaur. 1939–1945: Second World War. Axis naval activity in Australian waters. 1941: Sinking of HMS Sydney; 1942: Attack on Sydney Harbour; 1942: Shelling of Newcastle; 1942: Attack on the Dureenbee; 1943: Shelling of Port Gregory
After the war, full employment continued, with 96 percent of New South Wales' Indigenous population being employed in 1948. [161] The Commonwealth Child Endowment, as well as the Invalid and Old Age Pensions, were expanded to Indigenous people outside of reserves during the war, though full inclusiveness only followed by 1966. [161]
Indeed, for many Australians the nation's involvement is seen as a symbol of its emergence as an international actor, while many of the notions of Australian character and nationhood that exist today have their origins in the war. 64 Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War. [52]