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Explore our brand-new website ahead of this year's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day on 4 August.

The website provides children, families and early childhood educators with resources, activities and ideas to help you learn about and celebrate Children's Day.

Visit Aboriginalchildrensday.com.au

Embrace Children's Day 2020 and find innovative ways to mark this special day, whether at your early years service, school or with your family at home.

Finally got to see this beautiful piece in person yesterday.
It’s huge ! And covers the entrance ceiling at Westmead Hospital.

‘Gumedagu Gurang -Place of Our Ancestors’ by my Aunty Leanne Tobin and Dad (Chris Tobin) . was commissioned by Westmead Hospital.
✨So proud of this one ✨



@ Westmead Hospital

We were grateful to be invited Welcome WARAMI festival 2020 to Darug Country
Watch online for a huge range of deadly artists 🙌

WARAMI Live: 5 Jul 2020, 12pm - 2pm Experience the best of Sydney's Indigenous live music scene with a free online concert featuring Indigenous artists and dance groups from Burramatta NAIDOC.

I love this little one 😍
‘Emu’ by Chris Tobin , acrylic on canvas

“Too Strong For You Karen”

By Jessica Tobin, 2020

“Waratah story “

Acrylic on canvas, By Chris Tobin

artist

‘Spirit Babies’

Acrylic on canvas by Chris Tobin

ON THIS DAY 225 YEARS AGO

Four hundred settlers are moved into the Hawksebury Richmond area of New South Wales in 1794 and First Nation peoples Yam beds were removed for planting corn.

When the corn was ripening a report went back to Parramatta that stated there were sightings of Aboriginal people intending to take the corn. Sixty Red Coats were deployed under the instruction to hang any Aboriginal person they killed to drive away others.

The Red Coats, along with some armed settlers, found a camp of First Nations people and at night they rode into the camp to 'shoot it up'. It is not known how many died. They took five prisoners to Parramatta, one of the women taken was carrying a baby who had been shot. The baby died in hospital and the prisoners were released three days later.

This has become known as the 'Battle of Richmond Hill' but being attacked at night without notice it was hardly a battle, a cowardly slaughtering describes it the best. It is sometimes referred to as the Battle of the Hawkesbury.

A Memorial Fire Place (pictured) was built in 2002 remembering the colonial violence across the region, located on the land of the St John of God Hospital in Richmond.

REFERENCES:
Battle of Richmond Hill (Wikipedia) https://bit.ly/2zfmwkg
The Battle of Richmond Hill (History of Aboriginal Sydney) https://bit.ly/2AL8ib4
Dharug massacre memorial site teaches young Aboriginal students about colonial history (NITV) https://bit.ly/2A8Bby1

Thanks for turning up Katoomba

Representative from local Indigenous communities joined with others to support the worldwide uprising of the BlackLivesMatter movement. The gathering also highlighted Deaths in Custody of indigenous peoples here in Australia. The gathering was well organised and attended by many in support. These pictures of our local support will be sent to BlackLivesMatter groups in the USA to show our solidarity.