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  1. Tongerlongeter: First Nations leader and Tasmanian war hero

    allies, the neighbouring Big River nation, intensified their resistance. There were 137 documented attacks ... armed resistance campaign on Australian soil, Tongerlongeter has largely been forgotten. However, ... (1981) and The Black Wars: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (2014) seek to rescue Tongerlongeter from ...

  2. The British Empire’s dirty secret

    Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire, historian and author Graham Seal documents how the ... his 1584 document Discourse of Western Planting. In it, Hakluyt argued that criminals, the poor and ... drove acts of resistance in the colonies, such as the 1804 Vinegar Hill rebellion in New South Wales, ...

  3. Losing Santhia: one Tamil refugee's story that reveals an ongoing freedom struggle

    in Jakarta, Santhia died of kidney failure in 2017, aged only 42. Sponsored by the Tamil Refugee ... Non-violent resistance campaigns led by mainstream Tamil parties were crushed. The parties of the Sinhalese ... document, Liberation Tigers and Tamil Eelam Freedom Struggle, written by Anton Balasingham on behalf of the ...

  4. Debt to East Timor remembered by soldiers, betrayed by governments

    for the Australians. Through various artefacts and documents, Debt of Honour explores the 1942 ... from the Portuguese authorities, they met no resistance. However, this intervention drew the Japanese ... and 70,000 East Timorese had been killed by the Japanese or died from starvation, disease or ...