2024 Myall Creek Yarning with Boe Spearim

The Frontier Wars and Blak Resistance: Then and Now
The 2024 Myall Creek Memorial commemorations at Oorala featured Boe Spearim - a Gamilaraay and Kooma man and driving force behind the groundbreaking podcast series ‘Frontier War Stories’. Boe has recorded more than thirty episodes, speaking with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people on the first century and a half of conflict and resistance in Australia. Episodes 21 was dedicated to the Myall Creek Massacre Memorial.
The trial and execution of perpetrators of the Myall Creek Massacre in 1838 were some of the most momentous events in NSW colonial legal history. UNE’s Law School is the closest Australian law school to the site of the massacre at Myall Creek Station near Bingara and for several years has proudly co-sponsored the annual Myall Creek Memorial commemorative events. This year, legal scholars from UNE will discuss the ongoing relevance of Myall Creek to legal scholarship that continues to reverberate in modern Australia.
About Boe Spearim
Boe Spearim is a Kooma, Murawarii and Gamilaraay, podcaster and activist born in western Sydney and raised on the Southside of Brisbane.
Boe has been involved in community radio since 2012 volunteering at 4zzz on the Indigi Briz program then later studying a cert 3 in media broadcasting at 98.9fm where Boe found employment after leaving the station and then coming back in 2017 Boe began hosting Let’s Talk a talkback program that discusses issues that affect First Nations people, as well as hosting a podcast called Frontier War Stories that has over sixty thousand downloads the podcast is dedicated to truth-telling about a side of Australia that has been left out of the history books.
Before finding his passion in radio Boe got involved in activism at the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy which was established in March 2012 in Musgrave Park and is a current member of (WAR) Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance.
This commemorative event at Oorala is proudly co-sponsored by UNE’s Oorala Aboriginal Centre, UNE’s Law School, and the Armidale Friends of Myall Creek Memorial.