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Radio War Nerd EP #247 — Australian Frontier Wars (Patreon)

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2020-09-26 15:10:04
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2026-06
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Guest: Prof. Henry Reynolds, historian 

Recorded: September 22, 2020

First: the Nerd and Ames discuss seasons & Belfast murals...

At 15:45 - Prof. Henry Reynolds joins us from Tasmania to explain both Australia's Frontier wars against the Aborigines, and also the forgetting of that war in the context of a political culture obsessed with its overseas martial history. We focus on Reynold's book, Forgotten War.

Maps:

*Evolution gif map of Australia

*Indigenous language map

Total time: 1:47:19

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 

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Jack Firman

Great topic and show. Once took a job in Australia in 2012 and thought being American and fellow colonial I’d hit it off there and have so much in common..man was I wrong..Though people nice enough and all but became obvious it was very different place. At the time and probably still ongoing where big aboriginal protests. Having to do with not having any representation in parliament that started me asking questions.. Going to have read Forgotten Wars now.

Alexander Corden

remember when Justin Trudeau got caught in blackface? Ahh liberal hypocrisy

GSL

Great episode - I grew up in the Howard years, and can confirm that our ‘version’ of Australian history was dominated by a colonialist narrative. It wasn’t until University that I even encountered people framing the discussion around the treatment of First Nation people as a genocide. And even having these discussions now in certain quarters still generates a fair amount of ire..

Nathan Buckley

Great episode that gives insight into not only Australia, but all settler colonial societies. I think it's interesting to note what the Australian War Memorial says about the conflict, and is visible on the blog section of their website today. "The “Frontier Wars” were a series of actions that were carried out by British colonial forces stationed in Australia, by the police, and by local settlers. It is important to note that the state police forces used Indigenous Australians to hunt down and kill other Indigenous Australians; but the Memorial has found no substantial evidence that home-grown military units, whether state colonial forces or post-Federation Australian military units, ever fought against the Indigenous population of this country. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is proud, however, that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have served in Australian military forces since before the Boer War and continue to serve today. Their service is the subject of significant ongoing research." As usual, the state legitimates the conflicts which serve its image. Just as the doctrine of 'terra nullius' denied recognition of Indigenous claims to the land on the basis it was not cultivated in a strictly European sense, it denies these conflict the status of 'war' which would elevate it in societal memory.

William Brame

This was a great episode that we in the west can learn from today. Our ancestors came here under the same pretenses and the project of using private white violence against the indigenous and captive (black) population still goes strong. I also see similarities in the suppression of the slave rebellion history with that of the indigenous Australians.

Panik

Link to the blogpost about Belfast? I tried googling “fict” but couldn’t find any relevant results.