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The Australian Wars
The story of Australia’s longest and perhaps most defining war has been largely kept silent — until now.
2022 · 1 season · 2h 50m · ★ 10.0
There are more than ten thousand monuments across the country that honour the war dead . But what of the bloody battles fought on our home soil, in our longest-running war that established the Australian nation?
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Episodes
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1. Episode 1
2022 · 57m
The story of Australia's first wars, calling for the nation to acknowledge the First Peoples who died in these conflicts and for the Australian War Memorial to recognise them.
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2. Episode 2
2022 · 58m
European immigration increases in Tasmania alongside the death count as Aboriginal people resist occupation and colonists encroach on the best land.
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3. Episode 3
2022 · 59m
Although the Australian Wars began with the British Government, the founding fathers of modern Australia conclude it, with northern Australia the war's final frontier.
Cast
Rachel Perkins
Self