Some Aboriginal Tasmanian people did survive colonial persecution, Ashby added, though at brutal costs. “Many Aboriginal women had been kidnapped by whalers, sealers and other settlers and taken to ...

In 1830, the Palawa people were in the midst of their guerrilla war against the British colonists taking their land in what is now Tasmania. After flaring in the mid-1820s, intensifying violence had ...

Jarrod Hore receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Colonial history overflows with commodities. From the early 1800s, wool generated extraordinary wealth for squatters and pastoralists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1830, the Palawa people were in the midst of their guerilla war against the British colonists taking their land in what is now ...

(CNN) — Colonial settlers of the Victorian era were often complicit in atrocities committed against native populations — and new research is unveiling just how those stories intertwine with the ...

David Bowman is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and also receives funding from the New South Wales Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre, and Natural Hazards Research Australia.