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Indigenous - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - 2007

2008 | 2007

God, Guns and Government   Read Transcript

09/12/2007
On 21 February 1891 in Central Australia the murder of two Aboriginal men prompted an enquiry and a murder trial of Mounted Constable William Willshire. They were just two deaths in a litany of killings, but this time it was more a crime of passion than punishment for cattle rustling. Peter Vallee has thoroughly researched this complex tale about the Central Australian Frontier.

Nathanael Pepper   Read Transcript

08/07/2007
In 1860 Nathanael Pepper became the Moravian Protestant mission's first Aboriginal convert. He would become a symbol of Evangelical Christianity's struggle to convert the indigenous people of Australia.