Legacies of Colonisation Series

Episodes:

1. Colonisation & Culture Wars
2. Alien Invasion I
3. Alien Invasion II
4. The End of the World (Van Diemen's Land)
5. The End of the World (Victoria)
6. The Conquest of Australia
7. Conquest Considered
8. From Control to Citizenship
9. Colonisation & Christianity

Part 1 (Ep.36): Colonisation & Culture Wars

On indigenous youth incarceration:

• • See the Common Grace website for a collection of resources on this issue
  • "FactCheck: are First Australians the most imprisoned people on Earth?", The Conversation, 6 June 2017.

Books used:

• Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu: Agriculture or Accident?, 2014.
• Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe, Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate, 2021.
• Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of the Frontier, 1981.
• Diane E. Barwick, "MAPPING THE PAST: AN ATLAS OF VICTORIAN CLANS 1835-1904", Aboriginal History, Vol. 8, No. 1/2 (1984), pp. 100-131.
• Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska, 2007.

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Part 2 & 3 (Ep.37-38): Alien Invasion I & II

Books used:

• Grace Karsken, The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, 2009.
• John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars 1788-1838, 2002.

Map of the contested area (from Connor, Australian Frontier Wars). The Cumberland Plain is the space between the Hawkesbury, Nepean and Georges Rivers.

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Part 4 (Ep.39): The End of the World I (Van Diemen’s Land)

Books used:

• Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians: A history since 1788, 1982.
• James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land, 2008.

Map of Van Diemen’s Land: Aboriginal lands and British expansion (from Connor, Australian Frontier Wars)

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Part 5 (Ep.40): The End of the World I (Victoria)

Books used:

• Richard Broome, Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800, 2005.
• Bain Attwood, Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History, 2009.
• James Boyce, 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, 2011.
• Bain Attwood, The Good Country: the Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the Protectors, 2018.

Image of the colonisation of Australia by 1835 (from Attwood, Possession)

Map showing pastoral settlement of Victoria 1834-1843, also showing the route of Major Mitchell's expedition (from Boyce, 1835):

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Parts 6 & 7 (Eps.41 & 42): The Conquest of Australia, and the Conquest Considered

Books used:

• C.D. Rowley, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, 1970.
• Timothy Bottoms, Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland’s Frontier Killing-Times, 2013.
•  A.J. Vogan, Black Police: A Story of Modern Australia, 1890.
• Noel Loos, Invasion & Resistance: Aboriginal-European Relations on the North Queensland Frontier 1861-1897, 1982.
• Richard Trudgen, Why Warriors Lie Down and Die, 2000.
• Paul Haw and Margaret Munro, Footprints Across the Loddon Plains: A Shared History, 2010.
• Henry Renolds, This Whispering in Our Hearts (Revisited), 2018.

Map showing pastoral expansion in Queensland, from Bottom, Conspiracy of Silence

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Part 8 (Ep.43): From Control to Citizenship

Online resources:

• Indigenous Australians and the Constitution, Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Electoral milestones for Indigenous Australians, Australian Electoral Commission

Books used:

• C.D. Rowley, Outcasts In White Australia, 1971.
• J.Cornford, "The Queensland Aboriginals Department, 1914-1939: The Development of a Protectionist Agenda", Honours Thesis, JCU, 1994.
• Rosalind Kidd, The Way We Civilise, 1997.
• Russell McGregor, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory 1880–1939, 1997.

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Part 9 (Ep.44): Colonisation & Christianity

Books used:

• John Harris, One Blood: 200 Years of Aboriginal Encounter with Christianity
• Robert Kenny,  The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathaniel Pepper and the Ruptured World
• John Blackett, Fire in the Outback
• Peter Latz, Blind Moses: Aranda man of high degree and Christian evangelist
• Djiniyini Gondarra, Father You Gave Us the Dreaming
• The Rainbow Spirit Elders, Rainbow Spirit Theology
• Gary Deverell, Gondwana Theology