Based on a forum held at the National Museum in Canberra c. 2003 this book presents a series of essays by leading contributors on the subject of conflict between Aborigines and settlers.

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.

The memoirs of five pioneering families who in the 1860s 'opened up' part of the Channel Country in southwest Queensland. The writers of these memoirs had much in common. And yet a careful reading of these accounts reveals startling differences in how the pioneering experience is portrayed.

Historical perceptions of Native Police Corps treachery or cooperation; recruitment; conditions of employment; status; relationship with remainder of Aboriginal population.

What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology attempts to showcase as many diverse voices, experiences, and stories as possible to answer that question. Each account reveals, to some degree, the impacts of invasion and colonisation.

Traces the co-ordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradyuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing drastic counterattacks by colonists and punitive expeditions led by armed parties of colonists and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradyuri women and children.