A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result – a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world – of land seized, fortunes made and lost, and the violence let loose as squatters and their allies fought for possession of the country – a war still unresolved in today's Australia.

It concerns itself with the erasure of Aboriginal people from Australian history and examines the Queensland Government's Rewan Police Horse Breeding Station in the Central Highlands as a case study of erasure 1909-34.

Aims to visually (digitally) present the resistance wars in south-eastern Queensland 1820-50 in an easily-digestible and informative manner, by combining maps, images and brief explanations. Dr Kerkhove seeks to better illustrate the typical lifestyle of settlers and Aborigines caught in the resistance wars. He also seeks to develop historical maps that better reflect what was happening from an ‘Aboriginal resistance’ perspective.

Includes section on Aborigines and Europeans; violent conflict; resistance; native police; racism, stereotypes; alcoholism; infectious disease; prostitution; fringe dwellers; government policy.

'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.

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