Legacies of Colonisation Series

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