Reflections on 15 January - Loss of country...and poisonings: In many cases the resident Aboriginal clans were being driven off the land.

Reflections on 14 January - ‘Slaughtering whole camps’: The casualness of murder.

Reflections on 13 January - A deadly camp raid: Aspects of slavery.

Reflections on 12 January - Charles Darwin’s comments: 12 January, 1836 – HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin on board arrives at Sydney.

Reflections on 11 January - Gibbets and Darwinism: “The bodies of the Dharug killed were to be placed in iron gibbets and hung from trees as a warning.”

Reflections on 10 January - Attitudes past and present: “These savages...appear to us intelligent, cheerful and very deserving.”

Reflections on 9 January - ‘A cult of forgetfulness’, “...it would seem as though the protection of our Aborigines might be regarded as a mere cant term.”

Reflections on 8 January - Massacres and Civilisation, “...he admitted that he and his party had killed 'between twenty and thirty' Aboriginal men...”

Reflections on 7 January - Invasion and resistance, “...which resists our usurped authority and dominion...”

Reflections on 6 January - Occupation and sovereignty, “...putting down the Indigenous resistance described as 'great slaughter'.

Reflections on 5 January - A postscript on another dimension of violence in Australian society.

Reflections on 4 January - William Ferguson, a fighter for justice for his Indigenous people.

Reflections on 3 January - Australia’s human history began over 60,000 years ago. Then in the late 18th century, invading soldiers, convicts, “explorers” and settlers began to take over…

Reflections on 2 December - Barbarous dispossession, “...the wanton and barbarous manner in which many of them have been destroyed...”

Reflections on 1 January - Imperial anticipation of conflict. The Gamaraigal people must have thought they were confronted by barbarians...

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.”