Updates
Updates to the website are ongoing as research and collaboration continues. We welcome feedback to improve the information on this website. If possible please provide sources for any suggested changes and additions.
We are currently working on:
- Linking to web sites, recordings and other information by people whose country this conflict occurred in.
- Summaries of each war or resistance movement, by historians and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people who are knowledgeable in that area.
- Systems to compile collections of full text primary sources from colonial records, and compiling those collections.
- Systems to identify named and unammed people, places and events in wars, and then to list people and map places and events in each war.
- Setting up a section to address common questions and issues in relation to Australian Wars and Resistance.
- A guide on how to research Australian Wars and Resistance.
- Setting up as an organisation to raise funds to carry out this work effectively.
Donations make a big difference in helping us do this work.
January 2026 Methods developed to gather colonial newspaper articles from Trove, clean OCR errors, sort and compile full text sources ready for publication for web, print and eReader by Bill Pascoe. Eg: Gomeroi and Wallaroi Resistance
January, 2026 Summary of Far North Queensland, Cairns War and Resistance provided by historian Timothy Bottoms.
December, 2025 Summaries of Moreton Bay and Southern Queensland War and Resistance provided by historian Ray Kerkhove.
November, 2025 Summaries of Roper River and Daly River War and Resistance provided by historian Robyn Smith.
October, 2025 Computational methods for identifying and listing named and unnamed people in texts about wars and resistance, developed by Bill Pascoe. Eg: Second Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal War and Resistance.
June, 2025 Summary of First Wiradjuri War and Resistance provided by historian Stephen Gapps.
February, 2025 Australian Wars and Resistance collective meetings begin.
December 2024 Map of incidents in the First Wiradjuri War produced by Stephen Gapps and Bill Pascoe
November 2024 Computational methods combined with historical research used to identify 39 wars or resistance movements and 2 areas of maritime conflicts, within 12 regions, and within 4 broad periods, by Bill Pascoe, using computational clustering methods developed by Kaine Usher and Bill Pascoe.
December 2022 Feasibility study on mapping Australian Wars and Resistance across the continent conducted by Bill Pascoe as part of the Historical Frontier Violence project.