For those studying the Frontier Wars, the conflict between the British Colonisers and the First Australians, here is a list of podcasts that focus on that period of history.
The Queensland Native Mounted Police were a violent organisation set up in the mid 1800s to systematically wipe out the Aboriginal population from Queensland. Click to join my mailing listIf you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy M
Meet Tarenorerer the Tasmanian First Nations female warrior who led her tribe against the British colonists.Click to join my mailing listListen to the end to hear the original song, Underestimate Me.Episode on the QLD Native Mounted Police that
Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner tells the tale of two men from the opposite ends of Adelaide society at the turn of the twentieth century. The fates of fringe-dweller Tommy Walker and State Coroner William Ramsay Smith entw
The Queensland Native Police had a devastating impact on Indigenous people across the state. We look at how Indigenous families deal with the unknowns in their family history – unknowns caused by the violence of the Native
Queensland’s Native Police was notorious for its violence against Indigenous people on the colonial frontier. How do descendants of Aboriginal troopers in the Native Police, and descendants of massacre survivors, make sense
In 1824, the British waged war against the Wiradjuri people of western NSW. It was known as the Bathurst War and it shook the new colony. But many Australians have never heard of it, or of the heroic Wiradjuri warrior, Wind
Professor Richard Broome (History, La Trobe University) on the frontier war between settlers and indigenous Australia, focussing on the Myall Creek Massacre.Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
This Sunday marks the 180th anniversary of one of the most infamous massacres in Australian history — the murder of at least 28 members of the Wirrayaraay tribe at Myall Creek, in northern New South Wales.
Mat interviews Professor Jane Lydon about her new book, 'Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre', which sheds new light on one of the most infamous chapters of Australian colonial history.
More than 150 Aboriginal massacres that occurred during the spread of pastoral settlement in Australia are now documented in an online digital map. Developed by University of Newcastle historian, Professor Lyndall Ryan, the map is a significant
In 1817, the Bank of New South Wales opened as the first financial institution in the Australian colonies. But when the first customers arrived for the grand opening, they found someone had already made a deposit. Where did the money come from?