The Australian Wars: The truth about the bloody battles fought to establish a nation

For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present.

It is estimated that up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years—equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign wars to date. Yet few memorials mark these first, domestic conflicts.

The Australian Wars was conceived by Rachel Perkins following her award-w...