Richard Trudgen is the writer of the book Why Warriors Lay Down and Die and has been a pioneering figure in community development and education for near on 50 years.

Keith Munro is the co-chair of the Myall Creek National Committee and is one of the organisers of this year’s anniversary commemoration taking place on the 11th of June 2023. For more information 

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In this special episode celebrating the 3 year anniversary of Frontier War Stories, Boe speaks with Uncle Glen Miller about the monument to Butchulla warriors being installed on to commemorate Butchulla warriors. Read more

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In a special live recording from Avid Reader in Meanjin, Boe speaks with previous guest Ray Kerkhove at the launch of his book How They Fought published by Boolarong Press.

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In episode thirty two of Frontier War Stories, Boe speaks with Professor Lyndall Ryan. Professor Ryan is a  historian of violence on the Australian colonial frontier specialising in the period 1788-1850 and the leader of the team behind the Colonial Frontier Massacres Map.

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In episode thirty one of Frontier War Stories, Boe yarns with film and television director, producer, and screenwriter Rachel Perkins, a Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman who’s new documentary for SBS: The Australian Wars explores the bloody wars fought between the colonial settlers and local tribes raged from the time the first land grants were allocated in 1792.

The Australian Wars will be available on SBS ON DEMAND

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In episode thirty of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Uncle Rodney Dillon Palawa man from Tasmania and Amnesty International Australia’s Indigenous Rights Advisor.

We yarn about place names and the normalisation of the colonisation of Australia.

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In episode twenty-nine of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Dr Mariko Smith who is a Yuin & Japanese museum curator, visual sociologist, historian and works at the Australian museum.

This episode was recorded on the 26th of January 2022 on the IndigenousX twitter page. Boe and Mariko chat about the exhibition titled “Unsettled” at the Australian museum, the exhibition highlights Aboriginal resistance leaders, massacres, battles and much more.

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In episode twenty-eight of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with former Australian politician, archivist and local historian Michael Organ.

Lieutenant James Cook, Admiral (First Governor) Arthur Phillip and Major General (Fifth Governor) Lachlan Macquarie are celebrated by many Australians but not all Aboriginal people share the same feeling for these three, click and listen to find out why.

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In episode Twenty Seven of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Ryan Stewart who is a history teacher and a PhD candidate from the University of Newcastle, the research he is doing is based on the Darkinjung resistance and conflict in the Central Coast of NSW.

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In episode Twenty Six of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Fred Leone, we chat about his great grandfather Garrinjamaji (King Peter) who survived three massacres and saved his wife who was kidnapped during one of the massacres. Fred and his siblings were told this story growing up by one of his nannas who is the daughter of Garrinjamaji (King Peter), later on in his life Fred got a hold of two books which mentioned his great grandfather. Those books are ‘Whitefella Comin’ by David S. Trigger and ‘Frontier Justice by Tony Roberts.

Fred comes from the Garawa and Butchulla Tribes, Fred is one of the Butchulla Songmen, a language custodian and multidisciplinary Artist.

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