Reflections on 12 December - Tongerlongeter, Tasmanian war hero. And why is Tongerlongeter virtually unknown thesedays?

Reflections on 11 December - Continuation of: Excerpts from a speech delivered by Prime Minister Paul Keating in Sydney in 1992.

Reflections on 10 December - Excerpts from a speech delivered by Prime Minister Paul Keating in Redfern Park, Sydney, on 10 December 1992.

Reflections on 9 December - Casualties of ‘force of arms’: Claiming land for the Crown.

Reflections on 8 December - The human cost “...he heard a man boasting about how many blacks he had killed on his land.” Indigenous resistance but its human cost…

Reflections on 7 December - The Kilcoy massacre. 'Bumgar', or blue cod, was the place name the Aborigines gave to Kilcoy.

Reflections on 6 December - Massacres again: Causes for the marked reduction of the Aboriginal population.

Reflections on 5 December - Guns and dawn raids: Frontier districts in Queensland bristled with guns.

Reflections on 4 December - The bias of juries in the state of Queensland.

Reflections on 3 December - No colonist was ever charged in Van Diemen's Land, let alone committed for trial, for assaulting or killing an Aborigine.

Reflections on 2 December - Sharing not dispossessing: How can the Aborigines ever own property... if they persist in sharing?

Reflections on 1 December - ‘Violence was clothed in law’ in South Australia.