Between the 1830s and the 1850s, hundreds of Indigenous warriors and dozens of British settlers were killed across south-east Australia. Echoes of that conflict recur in Aussie rules.
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Boneta-Marie Mabo’s art responds to a colonial past in which Aboriginal women were fetishised as “black velvet”. But it also celebrates strong women, including her activist grandmother Bonita Mabo.
The company built by ‘Cattle King’ Sidney Kidman is for sale. He enjoyed good relations with the Indigenous inhabitants, but proper recognition of their rights to their land seems ever more elusive.
The Australian War Memorial promises to tell ‘our story’ about the nation’s war experience – but it silences many stories about Australia’s nationhood and glosses over Indigenous experience.
On Anzac Day, Australia remembers its war dead, with one tragic exception. Australia is apparently disinclined to acknowledge the fact or the importance of frontier conflicts. What’s the nexus between…
Tasmania’s Black War (1824-31) was the most intense frontier conflict in Australia’s history. It was a clash between the most culturally and technologically dissimilar humans to have ever come into contact…
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Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Research Professor, Aboriginal Studies Global Cultures & Languages, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Associate Professor in History, Deakin University
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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, The University of Western Australia
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PhD Candidate, University of Newcastle
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Dean Laureate and Professor of History, Victoria University
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Honorary Lecturer, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Adjunct Researcher, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor Emeritus and Head, Isikhumbuzo Applied History Unit, Rhodes University
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Research Fellow, Associate Professor (Adjunct), School of Social Sciences (Archaeology), The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra