Media Release 22 April 2018 Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars Anzac Day March to Australian War Memorial Once again advocates for the recognition and commemoration of the wars of the British Invasion of this land by the Australian War Memorial will be marching on Anzac Day. The annual March was initiated by Ghillar Michael Anderson in 2012. Each year the March has been greeted by the spectators of the RSL-organised Anzac Day Parade with warm applause. Each year the March attracts more participants. Once just a handful, now hundreds vote with their feet. Each year previous the peaceful March has been turned away by the ACT police line at the Australian War Memorial. "It's an act of exclusion, weighty with symbolism," said Frontier Wars Camp convener, Chris Tomlins, an Arunta man from Yambah, Near Alice Springs. "How long will we persist? As long as it takes." "We are knocking at a door and will keep knocking till it opens'" he said. "Our message to the Director of the Australian War Memorial, Dr Brendan Nelson, and his Board of Directors is that we want the Memorial to open to the Frontier Wars. To admit them." "Honest remembrance of the Frontier Wars is the gateway to reconciliation," Tomlins said. Uncle Marbuk Wilson from Bourke will be directing a Frontier Wars Reconciliation Dance at the police line. Floral activist Hazel Tomlins will be parading a Desert Pea Frontier Wars wreath, the Desert Pea being the blood flower - the native equivalent of the Red Poppy - from Uncle Marbuk's country. The wreath is intended for laying at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Further information FaceBook event > Frontier Wars March Anzac 2018 Michael Ghillar Anderson Sovereign Union 0499 080 660 Chris "Peltherre" Tomlins FaceBook 0409 023 419 Hazel Davies, Floral Activist, 0409 153 552 Downloadable Frontier Wars Story Camp 2018 A4 Flyer Chris "Peltherre" Tomlins and Roxley Foley at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy November 2015