Kristallnacht & Aboriginal Australia
In late 1938, only a few short months before the beginning of World War II, a most remarkable series of events took place in the south east of Australia. Set against a year in...
Category: People
Addressing Fake History
A recent series of attacks on Australian monuments dedicated to the likes of British seafarer Captain James Cook and early New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie, have been described by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm...
Is Australia Day held on the wrong date?
Is Australia Day held on the wrong date? An attempt to provide an answer to this important question was recently made by Yarra City Council in Melbourne. Councillors voted to drop the January 26...
Last of the Tribe
The last of the tribe is a phrase that was commonly used in the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. It was used by non-Indigenous Australians to mark the death of...
Tracker Patten
By John T. Patten John James Patten, known as Jack Patten, was born in the Snowy Mountains of Victoria at Corryong in 1874. He was the eldest son of John Patten, a man for...
Johnny Jarrett (Patten)
John Trevor Patten, known professionally as Johnny Jarrett, is an Australian Aboriginal Elder and community leader, former rugby league player and professional boxer.[pullquote-right]In 1957 Patten was offered a contract by the South Sydney Rabbitohs...
Remembering Margaret Tucker (1904 – 1996)
A lifelong civil rights campaigner, Margaret Tucker (nee Clements) was a Yorta Yorta (Dhulinyagan) woman born at Warrangesda Mission on the Murrumbidgee River in NSW in 1904, to parents William and Theresa “Yarmuk” Clements...
Remembering Jack Patten (1905 – 1957)
John Thomas Patten (28 March, 1905 – 12 October, 1957) was an Australian Aboriginal leader, professional boxer, journalist and civil rights activist. Early Life John Thomas Patten was born March 28, 1905, at Cummeragunja,...
1938 Day of Mourning – Aboriginal Civil Rights Protest
In November 1937, William Ferguson the organising secretary and co-founder of the Aborigines Progressive Association of New South Wales travelled to Melbourne to meet with representatives of the Victorian based Australian Aborigines League, to...
