Friday, 12:50

The Australian Wars

The absence of public memorialisation of frontier warfare in Tasmania is incongruous in an island so characterised by its colonial past. This public amnesia is in stark contrast to the richly detailed records of war left by the colonial government in the Tasmanian archives. This government enacted elaborate military plans with the backing of martial law across the island in an effort to conquer the Tasmanian First Nations people. The First Nations people fought almost down to the last person before accepting the terms of an armistice, the terms of which were never honoured.