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Boe Spearim is a Gamilaraay & Kooma radio host and podcaster who lives in Brisbane. Frontier War Stories - a podcast dedicated to truth-telling about a side of Australian that has been left out of the history books. Each episode Boe will speak with different Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people about research, books and oral histories which document the first 140 years of conflict and resistance. These times are the Frontier Wars and these are our War Stories.
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Friday Jan 22, 2021
Frontier War Stories - Libby Connors - Dundalli Day Part 1
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
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 Death on the Colonial Frontier.
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Frontier War Stories - Kristyn Harman - Aboriginal Convicts
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
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 Cockatoo Island). Several thousand Aboriginal men and boys also ended up being transported to Rottnest Island off the south-west coast of Western Australia.
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Frontier War Stories - Mark Dunn - The Convict Valley
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
In episode Eleven Boe yarns with Mark Dunn, author of The Convict Valley: the bloody struggle on Australia’s early frontier.
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
In episode Ten of Frontier War Stories, Boe yarns with Professor Lyndall Ryan who is an academic and historian from the University of Newcastle. We chat about Professor Lyndall Ryan's earlier work which was on Frontier conflict in the 1820s and 1830s between Aboriginal people and British in New South Wales and Tasmania.
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
Sunday Jun 28, 2020
In episode Nine of frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Fred Cahir author of My Country All Gone, White Men Have Stolen It: The Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870.
We look at the 70 year Resistance of the Wadawurrung People against the British, the Squatters and the Gold Seekers, Like most of the frontier conflict what we see is economic warfare from Aboriginal people against the invaders by using fire, dingoes, stealing livestock and burning crops.
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 2020
In episode eight of Frontier War Stories Boe Yarns with Paddy Gibson activist and Senior Researcher, from Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney.
Preventing the Punitive Expedition Planned (Massacre) in Arnhem Land in 1933, after the killing of a police officer by Yolngu leader Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda who fatally speared a NT police officer Constable McColl. Now, both the NT Administration and the Department of the Interior in Canberra began to prepare a “punitive expedition” that would ride into Arnhem Land and “teach the natives a lesson”.
Dhakiyarr’s act of resistance inspired an unprecedented movement of support for Aboriginal rights across broad sections of Australian society.
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Frontier War Stories - Stephen Gapps - Sydney Wars 1788 - 1827
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
In Episode Seven of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Historian & Curator Stephen Gapps, President of the History Council of New South Wales and the author of The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony, 1788-1817.
Saturday May 30, 2020
Saturday May 30, 2020
In episode six of Frontier War Stories Boe speaks with Angus Murray Wiradjuri PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle, Early this year he just began his Thesis which he is looking at How the Tactics of Aboriginal Warriors Develop and changed from pre-1788 to 1897.
Saturday May 23, 2020
Frontier War Stories - Ray Kerkhove - The Battle of One Tree Hill
Saturday May 23, 2020
Saturday May 23, 2020
In episode five of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Ray Kerkhove historian and author of The Battle of One Tree Hill The Aboriginal Resistance That Stunned Queensland. We talk about the Aboriginal Resistance, Battle tactics and Signalling used by Aboriginal Warriors such as father and son, Moppy and Multuggerah. In 1843, this culminated in an ingenious ambush and one of the first solid defeats of white settlement in Queensland.
Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
In the forth episode of Frontier War Stories Boe yarns with Libby Connors is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland and Author of Warrior A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life And Violent Death On The Colonial Frontier.
Libby talks about the life of Dundalli, who he was why he fought for his people. We also talk about the forty year resistance being waged in South East Queensland by the likes of Moppy, multuggerah, Dundalli, Billy Barlow and many more warriors.