The Australian Wars

Season

2022

8

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?

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

The modern-day city of Sydney was the birthplace of contemporary Australia and the first battleground in The Australian Wars

S1 • E2

Episode #1.2

European immigration doubled in Tasmania and so to the death count as colonists encroached on the best land and Tasmanian Aboriginal people resisted their occupation.

S1 • E3

Episode #1.3

Northern Australia was the final frontier of conquest and though The Australian Wars began with the British Government it was concluded by the founding fathers of modern Australia.