In episode Twenty Four Boe yarns with Angus Murray Wiradjuri PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle. Since episode Six of FWS Angus has changed his approach to his PhD in this episode we find out that Angus is now focusing on tactics used by Aboriginal people in frontier conflict on his country the Wiradjuri nation.

In episode Twenty Three Boe yarns with Dr Skye Krichauff about the Reconciling with the Frontier project which will develop a mapping tool that people can use to identify and learn about conflict sites between colonists and Aboriginal people. The project is focussing on research of conflicts between European settlers and Aboriginal people between 1836 and 1901. The project is about truth telling – bringing to light the atrocities that occurred against Aboriginal people here in South...

In episode Twenty Three Boe yarns with Dr Skye Krichauff about the Reconciling with the Frontier project which will develop a mapping tool that people can use to identify and learn about conflict sites between colonists and Aboriginal people. The project is focussing on research of conflicts between European settlers and Aboriginal people between 1836 and 1901. The project is about truth telling – bringing to light the atrocities that occurred against Aboriginal people here in South...

In episode Twenty Two Boe yarns with singer songwriter and teacher Paddy McHugh, we talk about a song he wrote titled Gins Leap. many years ago at the station I still work at I remember hearing a song for the first time with lyrics like this "On the Kamilaroi highway near the town of Boggabri There is a little truck stop there most travellers pass by But occasionally the weary or those who need to take a leak Will stop beside this spot by the name of Gins Leap, Now Gins Leap is a clifface a...

In episode Twenty Two Boe yarns with singer songwriter and teacher Paddy McHugh, we talk about a song he wrote titled Gins Leap. many years ago at the station I still work at I remember hearing a song for the first time with lyrics like this "On the Kamilaroi highway near the town of Boggabri There is a little truck stop there most travellers pass by But occasionally the weary or those who need to take a leak Will stop beside this spot by the name of Gins Leap, Now Gins Leap is a clifface a...

In episode Twenty One Boe yarn with Professor Lyndall Ryan from the University of Newcastle in NSW. On the 10th of June 1838 just outside of what is now Bingara in Northern NSW a group of 10 convict stockmen, led by a squatter, rode onto Myall Creek Station and brutally massacred about 28 Gamilaraay People, mostly older men, women and children in an unprovoked and premeditated attempt to get them off land. This event is now known as the Myall Creek Massacre and, whilst only one of many...

In episode Twenty One Boe yarn with Professor Lyndall Ryan from the University of Newcastle in NSW. On the 10th of June 1838 just outside of what is now Bingara in Northern NSW a group of 10 convict stockmen, led by a squatter, rode onto Myall Creek Station and brutally massacred about 28 Gamilaraay People, mostly older men, women and children in an unprovoked and premeditated attempt to get them off land. This event is now known as the Myall Creek Massacre and, whilst only one of many...

In episode Twenty of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns Libby Connors author of Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier. Billy Barlow Gubbi Gubbi headman and resistance leader, was born in the 1820s, the decade when British officials authorised the invasion and occupation of what would become the city of Brisbane. At some point during the 1840s Billy Barlow had joined Dundalli and the Aboriginal men of Bribie Island in their fight against the...

In episode Twenty of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns Libby Connors author of Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier. Billy Barlow Gubbi Gubbi headman and resistance leader, was born in the 1820s, the decade when British officials authorised the invasion and occupation of what would become the city of Brisbane. At some point during the 1840s Billy Barlow had joined Dundalli and the Aboriginal men of Bribie Island in their fight against the...

In episode Nineteen Boe Yarn's with historian Ray Kerkhove. We yarn about the many methods of communication Aboriginal people used while fighting on the frontier, Ray also tells us about some of the new interesting things he has learnt about Aboriginal resistance on the frontier.

In episode Nineteen Boe Yarn's with historian Ray Kerkhove. We yarn about the many methods of communication Aboriginal people used while fighting on the frontier, Ray also tells us about some of the new interesting things he has learnt about Aboriginal resistance on the frontier.

In episode Eighteen Boe Yarn's with Goenpul Goori Uncle Dale Ruska about frontier conflict on Stradbroke and Moreton Island known as the battle of ’Narawai (Moongalba).

In episode Eighteen Boe Yarn's with Goenpul Goori Uncle Dale Ruska about frontier conflict on Stradbroke and Moreton Island known as the battle of ’Narawai (Moongalba).

In episode Seventeen I yarn with Jimmy Kyle frontman for Punk Rock band Chasing Ghost Koori man from the Thungutti nation on the NSW mid-north coast. Chasing Ghost have recently released a powerful truth telling song titled “Summer” that tells the story of the 1856 Towel Creek Massacre.

In episode Seventeen I yarn with Jimmy Kyle frontman for Punk Rock band Chasing Ghost Koori man from the Thungutti nation on the NSW mid-north coast. Chasing Ghost have recently released a powerful truth telling song titled “Summer” that tells the story of the 1856 Towel Creek Massacre.

In episode sixteen of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Dr. Chris Owen who is a historian and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of Western Australia. Dr Chris is the author of Every Mother's Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905. The interview is broken up into a few parts, talking about the use of chains on Aboriginal people and native police in the Kimberley region, Jandamarra the Aboriginal warrior who put fear...

In episode sixteen of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Dr. Chris Owen who is a historian and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History at the University of Western Australia. Dr Chris is the author of Every Mother's Son is Guilty: Policing the Kimberley Frontier of Western Australia 1882-1905. The interview is broken up into a few parts, talking about the use of chains on Aboriginal people and native police in the Kimberley region, Jandamarr the Aboriginal warrior who put fear into...

Episode Fifteen Boe yarns with Lynley A. Wallis who is an Australian archaeologist and Associate Professor at Griffith University. The Queensland Native Mounted Police operated for over 50 years, from 1849 until 1904. It was organised along paramilitary lines, consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers led by white officers. It operated across the whole of Queensland and was explicitly constituted to protect the lives, livelihoods and property of settlers and to prevent (and punish)...

Episode Fifteen Boe yarns with Lynley A. Wallis who is an Australian archaeologist and Associate Professor at Griffith University. The Queensland Native Mounted Police operated for over 50 years, from 1849 until 1904. It was organised along paramilitary lines, consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers led by white officers. It operated across the whole of Queensland and was explicitly constituted to protect the lives, livelihoods and property of settlers and to prevent (and punish) any...

Episode Fourteen of Frontier War Stories Boe Yarns with Dr Joseph Toscano author of Lest We Forget The Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Saga, also national convenor of the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner commemoration committee. At 8.00am on Tuesday the 20th of January 1842, over 5,000 people, a quarter of Victoria‟s white population, gathered at the outskirts of Melbourne crowding round the gallows erected on a small rise east of Swanston Street and north of La Trobe Street. The...

Episode Fourteen of Frontier War Stories Boe Yarns with Dr Joseph Toscano author of Lest We Forget The Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner Saga, also national convenor of the Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheenner commemoration committee. At 8.00am on Tuesday the 20th of January 1842, over 5,000 people, a quarter of Victoria‟s white population, gathered at the outskirts of Melbourne crowding round the gallows erected on a small rise east of Swanston Street and north of La Trobe Street. The...

Episode thirteen of Frontier War Stories is broken up into two parts, this is Part 2 of Dundalli Day. In Part 2 Boe yarns with Ray Kerkhove about the 5th of January 1855 the day Dundalli was was hung at a site which is now The Brisbane GPO on Queen Street. Ray Kerkhove is a professional historian, cultural researcher and writer. He is currently Historian-in-Residence at Noosa, and an occasional historian with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (Dept of Architecture, University of...

Episode thirteen of Frontier War Stories is broken up into two parts, this is Part 2 of Dundalli Day. In Part 2 Boe yarns with Ray Kerkhove about the 5th of January 1855 the day Dundalli was was hung at a site which is now The Brisbane GPO on Queen Street. Ray Kerkhove is a professional historian, cultural researcher and writer. He is currently Historian-in-Residence at Noosa, and an occasional historian with the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (Dept of Architecture, University of...

Episode thirteen of Frontier War Stories is broken up into two parts, this is Part 1 of Dundalli Day.In Part 1 Boe yarns with Libby Connors about the 5th of January 1855 the day Dundalli was was hung at a site which is now The Brisbane GPO on Queen Street. Libby Connors is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland. In 2015 Connors received the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent...

In episode twelve Boe yarns with Associate Professor from the University of Tasmania Kristyn Harman author of Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan, and Maori Exiles.As a result of the frontier wars fought across parts of Australia (and also at other British colonies’ frontiers), Indigenous men ended up being transported as convicts. They served their sentences at places including Van Diemen’s Land, Norfolk Island, and several of the penal islands in Sydney Harbour (Goat Island and...