The Australian Wars: Evidence from Queensland

The records held at Queensland State Archives (QSA) have an integral role to play in the process of truth-telling and healing, and through our Frontier Wars project, QSA has started identifying, digitising, and assessing records that evidence this dark period of Queensland’s early history.
Our panel event, The Australian Wars: Evidence from Queensland, coincided with the release of ‘The Australian Wars,’ a three-part documentary series produced by BlackfellaFilms and available to watch on SBS.
The panel discusses frontier violence in Queensland as explored in the documentary and evidenced by QSA’s Frontier Wars research project. The panel includes Rachel Perkins, founder of Blackfella Films, Waanyi multi-media artist Judy Watson, historian, Jonathan Richards and Rose Barrowcliffe, First Nations Advisor to the Queensland State Archives. The panel is convened by Kerry O’Brien.

[@Bel_leonie]

No one stops someone looking for a job or getting skills, not wait to be giving everything. Sit down money. You got grants and sat down rather fix your community . Yes being a treaty so more land is dug up so u get more free money.

[@Bel_leonie]

An Aboriginal woman sent to Mornington is classed as one of the riches women. Free air fares, royalties etc. My ex grand mother spent thousands on him! Alcohol, gunja, cigs, cars, clothes, food the list goes on.

[@AdrianHepburn-vz9yr]

The premise is wrong for a start. There were never Australian Wars for Australia only became a single political entity in 1901. What the British encountered in 1788 were a plethora of tribes engaged in hunting and gathering and warring against each other. In not a few parts of the Australian continent cannabalism was frequently practiced. Also, being hunter and gatherer societies stored food surpluses were unknown in the western sense and in times of scarcity infanticide and matricide/parricide were practiced.

[@Bel_leonie]

Can’t listen to these ppl anymore! How many of you live on community?! None! That’s the evidence we need.

[@Bel_leonie]

Abt land? 😂 no it wasn’t. It was the the blacks wanting what the Europeans had. And if they assimilated and had good relations they were given everything they wanted. It was the native inland aboriginals who didn’t want to assimilate stole and ultimately caused violence on each other. The lawn hill homesteads were a perfect example of this!

[@kangaroonationalist877]

VOTE NO

[@dukedorian6817]

Why?

[@dukedorian6817]

One reason to vote Yes. life expectancy of Indigenous vs non-indigenous. In 2015-2017, life expectancy at birth was estimated to be 71.6 years for Indigenous males and 75.6 years for Indigenous females. The gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was estimated to be 8.6 years for males and 7.8 years for females. Given how young the indigenous population is, that is clearly an issue that should not be present for any group of people in à developed nation. As of 30 June 2021, an estimated one-third (33%) of the First Nations population was aged under 15, compared with 18% of non-Indigenous people in the same age group (ABS 2022a). The median age of First Nations people has increased - from 21 in 2011, to 23 in 2016 and 24 in 2021 (ABS 2022b). This is a key reason to have an advisory committee to parliament. It’s simply fear of the unknown and ignorance that drives a significant proportion of the No vote. The remaining No vote come from those who want treaty or truth telling first. Something which absolutely terrifies the first group in the No camp. ABS (2022a) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Census - external site opens in new window, ABS, Australian Government, accessed 11 January 2023. ABS (2022b) Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians - external site opens in new window, ABS, Australian Government, accessed 11 January 2023. Having a body who can directly advise parliament how to close that gap from within their own communities is going a long way to ensure First Nations Peoples a better life

[@trackdusty]

@@dukedorian6817 Mere assertion from a big time loser. 😂😂😂BTW, the series is based on a lie.

[@Bel_leonie]

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[@glennhumphries9444]

That panel looks very white!

[@Bel_leonie]

An Aboriginal woman sent to Mornington is classed as one of the riches women. Free air fares, royalties etc. My ex grand mother spent thousands on him! Alcohol, gunja, cigs, cars, clothes, food the list goes on.