Reflections on 1 August - XXX

Reflections on 31 December - History essential to meaning and identity.

Reflections on 30 December - Targeting of groups. An armed instrument of colonial government.

Reflections on 29 December - British government’s involvement and responsibility.

Reflections on 28 December - A system of assassination ...at least 47 Aboriginal people were killed.

Reflections on 27 December - Two anecdotes of Law: “The trial miscarried because Dore could not allow the Aboriginal witness to give evidence.”

Reflections on 26 December - Instances of brutality, “The settler retribution was indiscriminate and brutal.”

Reflections on 25 December - “The pits themselves were full of dead blackfellows, of all ages and both sexes.”

Reflections on 24 December - ‘treated...like other prisoners of war, 'Expulsion of the Aborigines from the settled Districts'.

Reflections on 23 December - White progress..traced by blood: “White progress in the Colonies is well traced by the blood they have shed.”

Reflections on 22 December - Wiradjuri land under threat: The ever-increasing number of settlers and stock animals put traditional Wiradjuri land use under threat.

Reflections on 21 December - Women and children: the exploitation of Indigenous women and children.

Reflections on 20 December - Sharing or Shooting: Possible ways of sharing the land and the waters.

Reflections on 19 December - Extermination, “The extermination goes on day after day...”

Reflections on 18 December - Twentieth century killings, “...women, piccaninnies, dogs, old people, young people, middle-sized people — finished them.”

Reflections on 17 December - Australian frontier warfare. Silence and the continuing failure of acknowledgment.

Reflections on 16 December - The struggle for land. Difficulties faced by an individual Indigenous man to acquire land.

Reflections on 15 December - Killing cattle...and Aborigines. Governor Arthur's intention was to use extreme measures and force the Aborigines in the Settled Districts to surrender.

Reflections on 14 December - Killing statistics and the ratios of the killings of Aborigines.

Reflections on 13 December - Skirmishes, “...make a severe example of that tribe… Aborigines who were suspected of spearing cattle were hunted relentlessly.”