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UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA QLD’S 6TH
United
Nations
Association
of Australia
YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US IN CELEBRATING
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE 2017.
Peace is transcendent to religions, borders, ethnicity and age. This is a time to unite and
remember the freedom we enjoy through peace. Your presence is important – by uniting together
we can show support for the cessation of hostilities around the world.
WHEN: 21st September 2017, 7 pm - 9:00 pm.
WHERE: St John’s Cathedral, 373 Ann St, Brisbane
GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Henry Reynolds
PERFORMANCE: Brisbane Combined Unions Choir.
PROFESSOR HENRY REYNOLDS
AUSTRALIA’S UNNECESSARY WARS
Henry Reynolds FAHA, FASSA (born 1 March 1938) is an eminent Australian
historian whose primary work has focused on the frontier conflict between
European settlers in Australia and indigenous Australians.
In more than ten books and numerous academic articles Reynolds has
demonstrated the results of his meticulous research and explained the high level of violence and conflict involved in
the colonisation of Australia, and the Aboriginal resistance to numerous massacres of indigenous people. Reynolds,
and other historians, estimate that up to 3,000 Europeans and at least 20,000 indigenous Australians were killed
directly in the frontier violence, and many more Aborigines died indirectly through the introduction of European
diseases and starvation caused by being forced from their productive tribal lands.
His books are based on a vast stock of evidence, available in archives and recorded during frontier times, and have
been instrumental in overturning previously held views prevalent in the late 20th Century that settlement was peaceful.
21
SEP
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United Nations
Association
of Australia
QLD Division
UN Photo/Mark Garten
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Vikki Henry 0410 132 021