Explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that history in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten? And what might this reveal about our understanding of the nation's history and its legacies in the present?

A novel about one of Australia's first true heroes, Pemulwuy. A proud and feared Aboriginal warrior, Pemulwuy leads an uncompromising twelve-year war (1788-1802) against British colonial oppression and makes the supreme sacrifice in order to guide his people to safety.

One event in 1934—the shooting at Uluru of Aboriginal man Yokununna by white policeman Bill McKinnon, and subsequent Commonwealth inquiry—stood out as a mirror of racial politics in the Northern Territory at the time. But then, through speaking with the families of both killer and victim, McKenna unearthed new evidence that transformed the historical record and the meaning of the event for today. As he explains, ‘Every thread of the story connected to the present in surprising ways.’ In a sequence of powerful revelations, McKenna explores what truth-telling and reconciliation look like in practice.

'The Great War was never the greatest war in Australian history. Strong evidence suggests that colonial Queensland’s frontier wars alone took the lives of more than 68 000 Australians, whereas World War I in comparison accounts for the loss of 63 000 Australians’ lives.’ Extracts from and reviews of his book Frontier Wars Revisited, other resources.

The original 1990 Satellite Dreaming TV program traced Indigenous media work in Australia to that point and this website takes the story further. Has essays, a timeline and references to media milestones and important works, such as the movies Samson and Delilah (2009) and Sweet Country (2017), and the TV series Redfern Now (2013).

Travels in outback Queensland, covering among other things frontier genocide, race relations, murders, massacres, poisoning, and the role of the Native Police.