The Desert Pea and The Frontier Wars March on Anzac

Earth Matters · Apr 22, 2018

The Australian frontier wars were a series of conflicts fought between Indigenous Australians and white settlers during the Brittish colonisation of Australia.Hear from two activists who decided eight years ago to make banners that remember the frontier war conflicts and join the Anzac march on Anzac day in Canberra to be met by a police line. Now the march has become an annual event attended by hundreds of people with similar actions springing up in other parts of Australia. Hear Hazel Davies: a florist activist who tells the story of the desert pea as an indigenous blood flower, the native…