Covers First Nations battles in the first decade or so of the Sydney settlement, around Bathurst, at Pinjarra, WA, and at Battle Mountain, Queensland, as well as Vinegar Hill (convict uprising, 1804) and the Eureka Stockade (1854), their inclusion explained by the sub-title of the book in some printings: 'the black resistance to invasion and the white struggle against colonial oppression'. 'Generations of Australians have been taught that no wars have ever been fought on Australian soil. Yet as many as 20,000 black Australians died fighting a war of resistance that lasted for more than a century. Six Australian Battlefields presents an alternative view of history. Through detailed accounts of four great clashes, it confronts the reader with the realities of life on the Australian frontier. And through a retelling of the stories of Vinegar Hill and Eureka it reminds the reader of the central place of resistance in our past.'

Long-running ABC program with First Nations themes, presented by Defending Country Supporter, Professor Larissa Behrendt AO, UTS.

In 1972, activists erect an Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns opposite Parliament House—fifty years on, with the Embassy still there, this documentary looks at a year of protest and revolutionary change for First Nations people.

The story of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania … Far from disappearing, the Tasmanian Aborigines actively resisted settler colonialism from the outset and have consistently campaigned for their rights and recognition as a distinct people through to the present.

Returning after fifty years to the frontier town where he lived as a boy, Dean Ashenden finds Tennant Creek transformed, but its silence about the past still mostly intact. Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of ‘relations between two racial groups within a single field of life’ has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence – from its beginnings in the first encounters of black and white, through the work of the early anthropologists, the historians and the courts in landmark cases about land rights and the Stolen Generations, to still-continuing controversy. In a moving finale, Ashenden goes back to Tennant Creek once more to meet for the first time some of his Aboriginal contemporaries, and to ask how the truths of Australia’s story can best be told.

Written and illustrated by over 150 First Nations children and published by the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council. Chapter headings: Dreaming, Old Time, The Macassans, The Whitefellas, Today, My Country.