Reflections on 30 November - Excerpts from the address given by Pope John Paul II to Indigenous people at Alice Springs on 29 November, 1986.

Reflections on 29 November - Ratio of killings: “...mass killings of Aborigines were a key feature..”.

Reflections on 28 November - Contrasts in peace and slaughter: Two pictures of differing relations.

Reflections on 27 November - Questions raised. Extract continued from entry for 26 November: An Explorer Explains.

Reflections on 26 November - Intrusion and aggression: An Explorer Explains.

Reflections on 25 November - ‘...justice, forbearance...land’. “Unease about settlers' abuses against Aboriginal people in the region.”

Reflections on 24 November - Military police state and POWs: “Prisoners of war” or “subjects of the British crown”?

Reflections on 23 November - Chaining or killing: ‘...he has killed and will kill blacks.’

Reflections on 22 November - ‘...a brutal history.’ “British colonisation was seen as both an invasion and an awesome social experiment...”

Reflections on 21 November - Dundalli, Indigenous warrior: Indigenous leader Dundalli and the legal silencing of Aboriginal claims and experience.

Reflections on 20 November - Settlers’ might over right: “It would be 'extremely impolitic' to try settlers for killing Aborigines.”

Reflections on 18 November - More massacres: Commentary on massacres in Queensland and Victoria.

Reflections on 18 November - Conflict and white supremacy. Forcible removal of Indigenous people.

Reflections on 17 November - “Domestic service was a cruel time for my mother, like so many women of her generation.”

Reflections on 16 November - Concentration camp. It was how we felt about being Aboriginal that mattered.

Reflections on 15 November - Subversion and separation of children from parents.

Reflections on 14 November - Disproportionate killing. Conflict and mass killing in North Queensland.

Reflections on 13 November - Military operations to Land Rights. Soldiery on the Western Front of Tasmania.

Reflections on 12 November - “ My country – all gone.” Atrocities committed...women kidnapped...traumatic loss of land..denial of tenure...

Reflections on 11 November - Wholesale slaughter. “Oral history...along the tip of Cape York still refers to Jardine's wholesale slaughter of Aboriginal camps.”