First Wars
Filmmaker Rachel Perkins tells the story of Australia's First Wars - the brutal conflicts that emerged from Indigenous resistance to British settlement over the first 100 years of colonization.
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Filmmaker Rachel Perkins tells the story of Australia's First Wars - the brutal conflicts that emerged from Indigenous resistance to British settlement over the first 100 years of colonization.
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The modern-day city of Sydney was the birthplace of contemporary Australia and the first battleground in the First Wars.
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The absence of public memorialization of frontier warfare in Tasmania is incongruous on an island so characterized by...
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In 1837 the Colonial Office in London began opening up the entire territory of Australia for sale and the great...