Forgotten War

''We are at war with them,'' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ''What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.''

Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between First Nations people and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier wars now than it was one hundred years ago? In this updated edition of