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28 March 2025, 20 May 2025
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Welcome to the Australian Frontier Conflicts (1788–1940s and Beyond) website. It seeks to document the frontier conflicts between European colonists and Australia’s First Peoples. The author of, and contributors to, the Australian Frontier Conflicts website acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today and in the future.
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‘Mounted Police and Blacks’ by Godfrey Charles Mundy, 1852.
Depicts the killing of Aboriginals at Slaughterhouse Creek (Waterloo Creek), New South Wales by British troops in 1838. Australian War Memorial ART 50023, www.awm.gov.au/collection/ART50023
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Note: In 2019 news items related to the Australian Frontier Wars website were posted on Facebook while the website was experiencing technical problems. There is no longer a Facebook page linked to this website.
Massacre near Geraldton WA: Traditional owners call for colonist’s diaries to be released in full
Read more about the Logue diaries and a massacre coverup in the story by Sara Collard, Lena Allam and Ella Archibald-Binge, The Guardian online, 5 August 2025: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/05/the-descendants-traditional-owners-call-for-diaries-of-wa-settler-who-killed-aboriginal-people-to-be-released-in-full-ntwnfb See also the previous post on [...]
Killings hidden in WA colonist’s coded diaries
Coded diary entries from an early colonist in the Geraldton area of Western Australia reveal killings of Yamatji Aboriginal people in retaliation for cattle stealing. Read more about these atrocities in Paul [...]
Yoorrook Justice Commission finds genocide happened in Victoria
Revelations from Victoria'a Yoorrook Justice Commission throws more light on the atrocities that occurred across Australia during the frontier period. Read more in the story by Nate Woodall and Kate Ashton on ABC News, [...]
Histories of Australia’s Frontier Wars reveal complexity; more needed
An article in The Conversation, 7 July 2025 reviews historian Stephen Gapps' recent publication, Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844, NewSouth Publishing, 2025: https://theconversation.com/a-defiant-stand-histories-of-australias-frontier-wars-are-revealing-their-true-complexity-but-theres-more-to-be-done-253233 The Australian Frontier Conflicts website has [...]
‘A gift to the people of Victoria’: here’s what mob think of Yoorook’s truth findings
Here's a recent update on Victoria's Yoorook Justice Commission: Findings of genocide, the importance of Treaty and redress, and of the truth-telling process. Read more in Cameron Gooley's story, 'A gift to the people of [...]
Compiled by Jane Morrison 2012–2022. Updated 25, 30 October, 23 November 2022, 28 March 2025, 20 May 2025.