S01E01 Episode 1
The story of Australia's first wars, calling for the nation to acknowledge the First Peoples who died in these conflicts and for the Australian War Memorial to recognise them.
The Australian Wars
The story of Australia’s longest and perhaps most defining war has been largely kept silent — until now.
Overview
There are more than ten thousand monuments across the country that honour the war dead . But what of the bloody battles fought on our home soil, in our longest-running war that established the Australian nation?
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
European immigration increases in Tasmania alongside the death count as Aboriginal people resist occupation and colonists encroach on the best land.
S01E03 Episode 3
Although the Australian Wars began with the British Government, the founding fathers of modern Australia conclude it, with northern Australia the war's final frontier.
Cast
Rachel Perkins
Self
