When the War is Over has shown on the last few Tuesday nights on ABC TV. Also on Iview.
The final episode tomorrow, Tuesday, 16 December, at 8.00pm is titled 'Australian wars'. It comes after the first four episodes, titled 'Gallipoli', 'Vietnam', 'Afghanistan', 'Changi'.
Episode 5, reinforces the truth that there is more to Australia's war history than Australia's overseas wars. There are also the Australian Wars, our foundational conflict, what historian Henry Reynolds has described as our most important war. The recently published book, The Australian Wars, powerfully makes the same point, as does this Defending Country website.
Actor Rachel Griffiths presents the show and talks with, among others, Professor Marcia Langton, Rachel Perkins (with Henry Reynolds, co-editor and contributor, The Australian Wars book), Troy Cassar-Daley, Brook Andrew, and Meyne Wyatt, about the art of the Australian Wars.
Henry Reynolds and Rachel Perkins are distinguished Patrons of Defending Country.
Picture credit: The Slaughterhouse (Waterloo) Creek massacre 1838, lithograph from a sketch by Godfrey Charles Mundy 1852. This artwork features in episode 5. It is also Defending Country's logo. For many years it was the only evidence (uncaptioned, as Gomeroi Memorial curator Garth O'Connell reminds us) in the Colonial Conflicts gallery at the Australian War Memorial that the Australian Wars had ever happened.
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