Dr Jonathan Richards, 2024 Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this blog contains graphic content and may cause distress. It includes descriptions of violence, racist and offensive language, sexual assault and references to people who have died. When researching Queensland frontier violence at Queensland State Archives (QSA), there is documented evidence […]
Researching frontier violence in the archives
Dr Jonathan Richards, 2023 Archives and libraries, the places which safely store historical documents and records, are great sources of historical information about people, places and events. Different archives and libraries store different kinds of files and records, and the Queensland State Archives (QSA) at Runcorn, in Brisbane, is the main storage facility for official […]
Queensland Frontier Wars
An essay by historian Dr Jonathan Richards on frontier violence in Queensland, as documented in the records at Queensland State Archives. Histories of violence Our nation’s longest war occurred during Australia’s colonial and post-colonial periods. State-sanctioned racially-based violence – an issue that many Australians are either ignorant of, or deny occurred – was often carried […]