This land was not peacefully settled - Unsettled uncovers the untold histories behind this nation’s foundation story. With more than 80 significant cultural objects and over 100 contributions by First Nations peoples across the country.
Brendan Beirne’s landscapes illustrate the unquiet places where Aboriginal people have been slaughtered.
Using infrared camera technology to capture a sense of the unseen history through the seemingly peaceful landscapes, these images allow us to see that the lands we live, work and play on remain unsettled.
Investigating four case studies
at the National Museum of Australia
Royal Australian Historical Society -Fanny Balbuk Yooreel (1840-1907)
Kamalyarrpa Japanangka (‘Bullfrog’) and the Coniston Massacre
On duty in pursuit of the natives”: accounting and truth-telling about Australia's frontier wars
From the moment the British invaded Australia in 1788 they encountered active resistance from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander owners and custodians of the lands. In the frontier wars which continued until the 1960s massacres became a defining strategy to eradicate that resistance. As a result thousands of Aboriginal men, women and children were killed. This site presents a map, timelines, and information about massacres in Australia from 1794 when the first massacre was recorded until 1930
The colonisation of Australia was brutal and bloody, but many stories of the frontier have been hidden or denied. This series for the Guardian tells some of them and asks, are we ready for truth telling? It includes a massacre map of the frontier wars.
This website seeks to document the conflicts between European colonists and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples.
Monument Australia documents the many monuments and memorials associated with the conflicts between European settlers and the Indigenous Australians during the frontier wars. Massacre and other sites are listed
The Frontier Wars was the bloodiest conflict on Australian soil. This article looks at eight of the warriors who fought for their people and their land against colonial forces.
This blog is about research relating to frontier conflict and especially the native mounted police in Queensland
overeign Union provides the background to the conflict between settlers and the Indigenous people: the complex societies, invasion, inevitable conflict, and resistance.
This page about the Frontier Wars tells of prisoner abuse, freedom-fighters, massacres, and Aboriginal habitats and villages before and after slaughter and displacement.
