First Australians: Plenty Stories are comprehensive resources for upper primary classrooms that draw on a range of sources to tell stories of significant issues still facing Australian Indigenous peoples. Covering three connecting themes (Our Places, Our Cultures and Our Voices), the series is aligned with state and territory curricula in SOSE, HSIE and Humanities and the Arts.
In 1928 in Central Australia, the killing of a European by an Aboriginal man led to expeditions by a police party that resulted in many Aboriginal deaths. These killings are known as the Coniston massacre. How did society view these tragic events? Did Aboriginal people have a voice in 1928? Seventy-five years later, the groups affected shared their experiences at a special commemoration for the Coniston massacre.
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