Seven papers covering overview of race relations, Aboriginal occupation before European settlement, impact of European settlement, Aboriginal resistance and European repression, sexual relations between Aborigines and Europeans. law, administration and the press, Aborigines in the local economy, failure of assimilation, fate of local clans.

An impressive work of historical sociology. Covers Aboriginal labour patterns, environmental history (masculinity, hunting and attempts to eliminate native fauna), issues in colonialism, post-colonialism and Australian Studies, social structure (class, race and gender), colonial political economy and intercolonial and global connections, the so-called 'Queensland difference'. (Full text available at URL)

The Queensland frontier was more violent than any other Australian colony. From the first penal settlement at Moreton Bay in 1824, as white pastoralists moved into new parts of country, violence invariably followed. Many tens of thousands of Aboriginals were killed. Europeans were killed too, but in much smaller numbers.

Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko tells two extraordinary stories set five generations apart. Torches Queensland’s colonial myths, while reimagining an Australian future.

This database derives from a four year long project to explore the archaeology of the NMP. It is the only publicly available historical and archaeological dataset of their lives and activities. The excavations conducted for this project were the first archaeological investigations of any Native Police force operating anywhere in Australia. The Queensland Native Mounted Police operated for over 50 years, from 1849 until 1904. It was organised along paramilitary lines, consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers led by white officers. It operated across the whole of Queensland and was explicitly constituted to protect the lives, livelihoods and property of settlers and to prevent (and punish) any Aboriginal aggression or resistance. This was often accomplished through violence in many forms, leading Henry Reynolds to characterise the NMP as 'the most violent organisation in Australian history'.

Examines and compares the most prominent statements made in 'The history war', with key primary sources for colonial Queensland's history. Also considers the evidence of white and black victims to frontier violence in north-eastern Australia, providing a full listing of all recorded Europeans and assistants who fell victim during the 19th century to this violence within present day Queensland.