Australian Wars and Resistance

Support mapping of Australian Wars and Resistance across the continent of Australia. Initial findings suggest there were 39 distinct wars and 2 maritime conflicts from 1788 to the 1930s and each of these deserves deeper research towards appropriate acknowledgement and truth telling. We aim to gather and provide details on the real events that comprise these wars, to identify 100s of named and thousands of unnamed Indigenous people involved, and provide narratives of what happened.

We are a collective of leading historians, authors, archaeologists and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people collaboratively researching, gathering and providing access to information, evidence and representations of colonial frontier conflict. Our work builds on the prior work of generations of activists and truth tellers, and takes the next step from the Colonial Frontier Massacres, 1788-1930 project, including members of that team.

This is a massive undertaking and not possible without dedicating resources to a combination of archival research, Indigenous knowledge holders, digital methods to handle the large volume of information and appropriate community collaboration.

We ask for funding in stages, first to set things up, then to methodically work on each project. Thank you for helping us provide reliable information about this hidden and controversial history, important to everyone in Australia.

Funds will go evenly towards:

- Indigenous Knowledge

- Archival research

- IT methods

using:

- evidence

- reason

- ethics

to produce for each war (est. $30K per war):

- maps of events

- lists of people

- honest histories

See https://

australianwars.net/funding.php for more details.