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.”

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.

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.