The killing times

The colonisation of Australia was brutal and bloody, but many stories of the frontier have been hidden or denied. This series tells some of them and asks, are we ready for truth telling? Supported by ...
The Conversation

‘A defiant stand’: histories of Australia’s frontier wars are revealing their true complexity, but there’s more to be done

Historian Stephen Gapps’ latest book, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, describes a coordinated Aboriginal military front across more than 20 different Aboriginal nations and ...
The Conversation

The Australian War Memorial must deal properly with the frontier wars

The recent media rounds of the new chair of the Australian War Memorial Council, Kim Beazley, appear to presage a major shift in the institution’s attitude to the frontier wars. Beazley explained it ...