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.”

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.