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28 March 2025, 20 May 2025
The Australian Frontier Conflicts website is undergoing a content review to update information and to remove broken links. As the author has had operations and several illnesses since 2017, most recently in 2026, some of the information, like News, may not include much content. But check it out.
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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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Compiled by Jane Morrison 2012–2022. Updated 25, 30 October, 23 November 2022, 28 March 2025, 20 May 2025.